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.\1!IU)1 r. IIk.vkv. horn in Kccnc. Oclolicr 5, 
1832, was for many years a leadinj; citizen of Win- 
clicstcr and died in that place Feliruary 12, 189.S. 
He was tile son of Haniel and I'olly (Hrown) Ab- 
bott, and was of the eijjhth generation from fieorge 
Abbott of Andover, Massachusetts. He attended 
the common schools of Surry, the Academy at Mar- 
low, and Mt. Ca-sar Academy at Swanzey. At the 
aj^e of cii,'l)teen he went .South as the ajjent of a 
.New Ndrk publishinj; house. For a year he taujjht 
in Warsaw. Pennsylvania, and for two years more 
was employed by a larjje lumber company at Ridge- 
way in that state. Returning to Keene, he engaged 
in business as a clerk and later as a member of the 
firm of Nims, ("lates iS; .Abbott. Selling out his in- 
terest, he s|)ent a year in travel, returning to Keene 
and again entering business. In 1S63, he went to 
Washington, becoming a clerk of the I'nited .States 
Sanitary Commission. lie was sent as sanitary 
agent, in the spring of 1864, with the Hurnsicle 
Corps in ( General Cir.wit's campaign from the Rapi- 
dan to I'etersburg. and was present at the battles of 
the Wilderness, .Spottsylvania, North .Anna, and Cold 
Harbor. Illness compelled him to return home. It 
was his intention to return to the front, but while he 
was convalescing, he was elected Cashier of the 
Winchester .State Hank, which rn Mar(li. 1865. was 
changed to a National Hank, Mr. .\bl>ott remaining 
its Cashier until his death. From 1865 he held the 
oftice of Town Treasurer. I'or eleven ye.irs in suc- 
cession he was MiKlerator. .\ zealous Republican, 
he served as Chairman of the {•"..xet ulive Conunittee, 
was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 
i8f)o, and attended many coimty and state tonven- 
tions. In 1869 and 1870 he represented Wint hes- 
ter in the I.egisl.iture. Huring his first term he was 
chairman of .1 sjR'ii.il (omniiltee to examine state 
priitons, and was a prominent member of the Com- 
mittee on Railroads. In his second year he was 
Chairman of the first Insurant e Committee formecl 
in the Mouse. When he was a member of the St.ite 



Senate in 187,^ and 1874. licser\ed on the Commit- 
tee on Hanking and I'inance and on the Judiciary. 
He was a tireless worker, and aidetl largely in se- 
curing the passage of a number of important meas- 
ures, among them se\eral dealing with banking and 
insurance. As an orator. Mr. Abbott took a leading 
]ilace in the slate, both in stump speaking and in the 
delivery of more formal addresses. W'iien, in i8<j4, 




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the desi iiidanls of ( 'apt. mm lii^nn.is ||.ii\<\. .m 
officer in the Revolutionary .\nii) , dedii .ited a mon- 
ument in Surry to his memory, Mr. .\bboit. himself 
one of the desc end.ints. <lclivered the .i'' ' 
ing elii*|uent tribute to thi- suldier tnd ] 
w.is alw.iys foreinr)st in promoi 
town, .iiid the Winchester l.ibi 
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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Lodge of \\'inchL-stt;r, Cheshire Chapter, and Hvigh 
De Payen Conimandery, Knights Templar, at 
Keene ; one of the founders of the New Hampshire 
Business Men's Club ; and a member of the New 
Hampshire Bankers' Association. Mr. Abbott was 
married January 22, 1855, to Harriett M. Grain, 
daughter of Leander and Hannah Grain of Surry. 
His wife died August 12, 1888. They had two 
children: Lelia E., now Mrs. Arthur J. Barber of 
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and Kate M., now Mrs. N. C. 
\^'ardwell of Hartford, Conn. 



AHP.OTT, Oscar 1)iinrk.'\th, Physician, Man- 
chester, was born in Cornish Flat, September 13, 
1824, son of Ezekiel and Phebe (Morse) Abbott. 




(isi. AU i>. Aliiuri r. 

He is in the seventh generation, in direct line from 
George Abbott who emigrated from Yorkshire, Eng- 
land, about 1640. and settled in Andover, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1643. His great-grandfather, Nathan 
Abbott, was born in Andoxer and moved to Wilton, 
New Hampshire, where his grandfather was born. 
Dr. Abbott received his education in the district 
school at Bradford, New Hampshire, at Henniker 
Academy, and at Phillips E.xeter Academy. After 
leaving E.\eter he went to Manchester in 1847 and 
began the study of medicine in the office of Doctors 
Davis and Jones. He took the degree of M. D. 
from the Berkshire Medical College of Pittsfield, 



Massachusetts, November 20, 1850. The following 
winter and spring he spent in Boston, attending lec- 
tures and doing hospital work. In the spring of 
1853 he settled in Rockport, Massachusetts, and re- 
mained there si.xteen years, when, on account of ill 
health, he removed to Manchester, where he is still 
in active practice. He was City and ("ounty Physi- 
cian in the years i878-'79, and a member of the 
Manchester Board of Health in 1S70. He is a 
Knights Tem]3lar, and a member of the Knights of 
Pythias. He is a member of the New Hampshire 
Medical Society, of the Manchester Medical Asso- 
ciation, of which he was chosen President at its 
organization, and has been a member of the Massa- 
chusetts State Medical Society since 1850. He is 
Consulting Physician to the Elliot Hospital and a 
member of the Derrj-field Club. In September, 
1853, Dr. .\bbott married Margaret S., daughter of 
Edward H. Pearce of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and 
in September, 1865, Emma B., a sister of his first 
wife. June 10, 1879, he was married to Kate Tarr, 
daughter of Benjamin Tarr of Rockport, Massachu- 
setts. He has three daughters : Mary G., Maud P., 
and .Annie F. Abbott. 



AMI DON, Charles Jacoh, Woolen Manufac- 
turer, Hinsdale, was born in Chesterfield, New 
Hampshire, April 23, 1827, son of Otis and Nancy 
(Cook) Amidon. He traces his descent from Roger 
Aniidon, a Huguenot. «'ho escaping from siege of 
Rochelle, France, went to England, and subsequently 
coming to America, settled in Salem, Massachusetts, 
in 1636, and who was one of the original proprie- 
tors of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Roger Amidon's 
great-grandson Jacob, a Harvard student when the 
Revolution Iiroke out, joined the army in time to 
fight at JSunker Hill, was captured by the British 
and afterwards confined on a prison ship in New 
York harbor. He settled in Chestertield in 1782, 
and died there in 1839, aged eighty-si.x years. His 
son, Otis ,\mid(iii, farmer and merchant, was a man 
of prominence of the town, which he repeatedly 
represented in the Legislature, and by which he was 
honored with many local offices. The subject of 
this sketch received his education in the common 
schools of Chesterfield, at a time when the schools 
of Cheshire county were considered the best in the 
state, and he also attended Chesterfield Academy 
for many terms. In his early manhood he was a 
successful teacher, but in 1S49 he formed a partner- 
ship with the late Henry O. Coolidge, the firm going 
into business at Chesterfield Center. In 185 i Mr. 



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Ainidon removed to Hinsdale, where he enjja^ed in 
iiiereanlile pursuits for ten years. In eonipany witli 
Dr. Frederic liovden ami -Sylvester Itishop, he l)e- 
jjan the manufacture of woolen ;;(H>ds in the sprin-; 
of i.S()j, the linn hein^ Hishop, Hoyden vV- .\miilon. 
Althou;4h death claimed hotli the senior partners, 
Mr. .\initlon has carried on the business until the 
present time, his two sons, V. I-', anil \V. ( >. .\niidon, 
beinj; now associateil with him under the lirm name 
of f. 1. .Vmiilon iV Sons, They operate mills at 
Wilton .IS well as those in Hinsdale. Mr. .\mi(l<in 
has had char;,'e of the settlement of many estates. 
and is frecpiently called upon for e.xpert advice in 
intricate cases where estates or personal property 
are involved, lie is a Director in several banks, 
and has served as President of the Hinsdale Sav- 
injjs Itank, a post he resii,meil over two years a^o. 
He has held a number of public oflices of honor 
and trust, and has declined many more. He was 
I'ostma.ster of Chestertield in iS49-'5o; Postmaster 
of Hinsdale from iS6i to iS;^ ; State Hank I'om- 
missioner. iS55-'57 : Representative in the State 
I.ejiislature in i.sr.i-Yj4, iS76-'77,and iS.Sj? ; State 
Senator in I1S7.S, 1.S79. and i.S.So; and he has held 
various town offices, such as Moderator and Select- 
man. In iS.Scj he was appointed one of a committee 
of live to ilraft plans and make estimates and su<;- 
gestions for the new State Library at t'oncord. This 
edifice was dedicateil in i.Si>5, the |)Ians of the com- 
mittee, in formulating' whidi Mr. .Xmidon took a 
part, beinjj accepted by the l.e},'islature without al- 
teration. In politics he was orij;inally a U'hi},'. but 
early joined the Republican |>arty, .soon betomin},' 
intluential not only in local but also in stale affairs. 
It was he who first presentetl the nanie of the late 
William Haile as a canilidate for Ciovernor of the 
state, and it was larjjely throu;;h his efforts tli.il Mr. 
Haile was elected. Mr. Amidon also ha<l no small 
share in brinj;in;j forward the name of the late 
rnilc'd States .Senator J. W. Patterson, then .1 l),irt- 
mouth professor, as a cindidate for ( 'on;;ress, and 
in securin;j his ele< tion. Sinie the clealh of his 
oldest dau;;hter, Mary l-.h/alKth, wife of Dr. K. I!. 
Whitred;;e. he has in nrv.xl measure withdrawn him- 
self from public life, and has striven in business 
pursuits to esca|H; from the shadow of a f;reat sor- 
row. Mr. .\midon is a charter member of (iolden 
Rule I,<«lj;e No, 77, Free and .Accepted ,M,isons. 
He has ^iven substantial aid and encoura^'ement to 
manv projects for l«-ni'liliiij; his town ; has ^iven 
lar;;ely to charities ; has aided in buildin;; up the 
town srhrMils ant! library. To him is due mud) of 



the credit for the erection of one uf the linest town 
halls in the state. In his relij^ious \iews he is a 
liberal. Mr. Amidon was m.irried .May 1 1, 1.S51, to 
Mary J. Harvey of ("hesterlieUI. They have had four 
children: Philip I'rank. Mary i:ii/.abeth. Ksther 
Maria, and William (His .\mi<l<in. of whom the sons 
survive. .\s an eslim.ite i«f .\Ii. .Nniidoirs ])ublic 
service, the following extract is ;^i\en from a letter 
of the Hon. I'./.ra S. Stearns. Seirelary of .Stale: 
••.\niiini; Ills assoiiates in st.ile service .Mr. .Xmidon 
has been (piickly reco^^nized as ,mi able, dear-headed 
man. His services have been valuable. (iood 
jiulLjnienl direited bv an honest purpose has ;;iven 
him jKivver thai conunanded universal esteem and 
respect, in everv |)ublic position he has tilled he 



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has been foremost in inlluence, and li: 

mon sense has attracted attention. Aiii'^ii, 

friends he is Icived ,is ,1 thorou;;hlv Imnesi. vi| 

m.in. and he is ,1 lirm friend to thuse he <i 

worthy of sudi re;.;,ird, but he will not tolei.ite 

thinjj th,il ,ippro.ii lies tre,ii liery or (I<miI>Ii- iji- 

He is faithful, sincere, truthful. Ii 

de,ir lie,id ,ilid ,1 vi;;orous intdlri t |i 

held many more posiiiniis of piiMir 

never sou;;ht honor, .ill he li 

teliilered, .\U(\ many pi»si|.' 1 

(le< lined. He is .111 r\.uii|ili idc 

of New I faiupshire 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ANTHOINE, Isaiah Cii.man. Physician and 
Surgeon, Nashua, was born in Windham, Maine, 
March 25, 1846, son of John and Mar}? A. (Gil- 
man) Anthoine. He received his early educa- 
tion in the High School at Windham Centre and 
Kent's Hill and North Bridgton Academies, and 
prepared for college at W'estbrook Seminary, gradu- 
ating from the seminary in 1868. He was a mem- 
ber of the class of 1872 in Dartmouth College up 
to his Junior year. In 1866 he had begun the 
study of medicine with Dr. Sturges of Windham, 
Maine, and later he studied with Dr. Jenness of 
Saccarappa and Doctors S. H. Weeks and William 
Warren Greene of Portland, Maine. He attended 




I. C. ANIHOINE. 

two courses of lectures at the Portland School for 
Medical Instruction, and then entered Bowdoin 
Medical College, from which he graduated in 1874, 
In 189 1 he took a post-graduate course at the 
Boston Polyclinic. From July, 1874, to November, 
1892, he practised medicine in Antrim, New Hamp- 
shire, and then removed to Nashua. He is a mem- 
ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society, Centre 
District Medical Society, of which he is an Ex- 
President. Nashua Medical Society, and American 
Medical Association. In 1884 he was a delegate 
to Dartmouth Medical College. From 1878 to 1884 
he was Superintendent of Schools at Antrim. He 
is a member of tlie Nashua Board of Education. He 



is an ( )dd Fellow and a Mason. In politics he is a 
Republican. Dr. Anthoine was married on January 
2, 1877, to Katie I. Preston, of Antrim. They 
have two children: Harry M., born October 2, 
1879, and Mary E. Anthoine, born August 11, 
1885. 



BACHELDER, John, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
whose inventions made possible the modern sewing 
machine, was born in Weare, New Hampshire, 
March 7, 181 7, son of William and Mary (Bailey) 
Bachelder. He had a public school and academic 
education, and for three years was a teacher, after 
which he became an accountant in Boston, in con- 
nection with the transportation company doing 
business on the Middlesex Canal. Subsequently 
he formed a partnership in the transportation trade, 
but the completion of the railway to Manchester 
put an end to the enterprise. Mr. Bachelder then 
turned to the dry goods business and the manufac- 
ture of silk and worsted trimmings. In the winter 
of 1846 he went to Europe to purchase goods and 
arrange for an importing house in Boston, steps 
which led to the formation of the prosperous firm 
of Bachelder, ISurr lS; Company. A few months 
later, in 1847, Elias Howe had a sewing machine 
on exhibition in ]-!oston, a curious piece of mech- 
anism but of little value from a practical stand- 
point. Mr. Bachelder became deeply interested in 
the machine, and after much study came to the 
belief that it could be vastly improved. After much 
experimenting privately at his home, he took a 
shop, mastered the trade of machinist, and de- 
veloped his works until he had a dozen men em- 
ployed. That he might de\-ote himself wholly to 
his undertaking he gave up his profitable importing 
business, and devoted five years and all his means 
(about twelve thousand dollars) to his task. To 
meet expenses he was forced to borrow about four 
thousand dollars from his friends ; and when finally 
he found it necessary to sell his patents, he realized 
only enough to pay his debts. Howe, Singer, 
Baker, and others who subsecpiently became famous 
in connection with sewing machines, frequently 
visited his shop and saw his machines at work. 
W. E. Baker of the Grover & Baker Company, 
saw one of Mr. Bachelder's experimental machines, 
using one vertical and one horizontal needle, and 
the company subsequently built a machine which 
was practically the same, with the exception that a 
curved under needle was substituted for a straight 
horizontal one. A clumsy stitch had been pro- 



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cluccd by the Itachclilcr luacliinc of this i) pc. 
which used two threads of equal size, and the 
inventor had not patented the device, but in other 
hands it was found that a smaller under thread 
obviated the trouble, and success was achieved. 
Tile most important feature of the Jiachelder 
patent, however, the iiorizontal suppf)rtin',' table, 
the continuous feed, and the vertical straight needle 
are there, which no sewing machine in use today 
could do without. His model deposited at the 
I'atent Office showed clearly enough what he had 
invented, but the patent failed to protect him fully. 
After his indirect sale to the Singer Company, it 
was reissued and made to cover all the points of 
tRe invention. There was subsequent litigation by 
the famous sewing machine combination. Singer, 
Wheeler \' Wilson, and Cirover v\: liaker, with 
Howe, but eventually a settlement was elTected. 
Manv calculations have been made of the value of 
the Hacheider patent. In the last year of its exist- 
ence one company reported sales of two hundred and 
sixty thousand machines, and on the day it expired 
the price of machines was reduced from sixty to 
thirty dollars. In other words, the protection in 
one year reached the sum of .seven million eight 
hundred thousand tlollars. Indeed, experts have 
figured the total value of the patent at over one 
hundred million dollars. •• liachelder," says a work 
on .Vmerican inventors, •• was the first man in the 
world who ever built a sewing machine having a 
horizontal bed-piece or table on which the cloth 
was supported, a perpendicular, eye-pointed needle, 
a needle-plate, a continuous feed, and a device for 
pressing the cloth in the vicinity of the needle with 
a yielding pressure, live elements which are now 
found in every modern .sewing machine, and with- 
out which they wotdd be substantially worthless." 
It may be remarked that when Mr. liachelder tried 
to introduce his machine, he encountered the sul>- 
stantial opposition of the journeymen tailors of 
lioston, and for a time they prolonged the day of 
hand sewing. .After his experience as an inventor 
he engaged in cotton manufacturing at Lislxin. 
(."onneclicut, where he encountered the disasters of 
fire and busines.s depression. A venture in wo<ilen 
manufacturing also failed to be remunerative. He 
served as l'f>stmasier and Town Treasurer of 
l.isimn, was a Director of the First National Itank 
of Norwich, anfl a Trustee of the Chelsea Savings 
Hank. In 1S75 he removed to Napa, California, 
establishing a manufacturing plant, in which he lost 
heavily. SrKin after he retired from active l>usiness 



life. He has always been interested in literary 
matters, and has |)ublished a book. "A. I). ;o^o." 
suggested by l!ellamy"s •• Looking liackward." Ik- 
was .Secretary of the I'ranklin .Association, lioston, 
in 1.S41 anil 1.S4.;. and Secretary of the West Cam- 
bridge Lyceum in iS^i and President in 1X5;. 
While in California he liecaine interested in libra- 
ries, and was for some years a Trustee of the Napa 
Library, of wiiich he was President when he left 
California. Subse(|uently he has resided in .Mil- 
waukee. He has taken an interest in p<ililiis, and 
while a resident of Connecticut was President of the 
l-'irsl I'remont Club in his district, in " The Path- 
liniier's" ])iisiilinii il 1 ampaign. Mr 11 n iM-ider 




John iia> iiki.ukk. 

married .September 5, iS.}^, .\daline Wason, who 
died November j.S, i.Sij^, but a few months after 
the celebration of their golden wedding. 'Thev 
had three children: l''.nun,i Louise (Johns, 
man Lindner, who died March 11, i.Siji. .imi 
Charles .Sunnier It.ichelder, miw in charge of the 
chemical department of the Western Iteet Sugar 
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li.MLIA, Will n\i W 
and llusiness .M.in •>( N,is|iii,i, w.t 
ton, New H.impshire, Novenil.i i 
'Thomas and jemim.i i .^milli 
ated from l),irimouth Colleg- 



Lawyer 
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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



his legal .studies with George & Foster of Concord, 
later attending the Albany Law School, from which 
he was graduated in 1856. His first practice was 
in Nashua, and fliere he has since remained. From 
the beginning of his professional career, he has 
enjoyed an enviable reputation. In i863-'C4. he 
was a Representative in the State Legislature, and 
was a candidate for State Senator. He was a can- 
didate for Elector at Large in 1884, and for Congress 
in 1886. He was City Solicitor of Nashua in 1884. 
In business and social life, he has had many and 
varied interests. From 187 1 to 1874, he was 
President of the \\'ilton Railroad. Since 1871, he 
has been a Director of the Nashua cS: Lowell road, 
and its Treasurer since 1891. He has been Presi- 
dent of the Nashua Savings liank f(jr fifteen years, 
a Director of the Indian Head National I!ank since 
1894, and President of the Hillsboro Mills Manu- 
facturing Companv. For four years from 187 1. he 
was a Trustee of the New Hampshire Agricultural 
College. For over a score of years he has been 
a Trustee of the Nashua City Library, and he is also 
a Trustee of the State library. In 1895 and 1S96, 




W. W. lUII.EV. 

he was President of the New Hampshire Society of 
the Sons of the American Revolution. In politics 
Mr. Bailey is a Democrat. On September 21, 1858. 
he married Mary Roardman, daughter of Alfred 
(jreelev of Nashua. Their children are: Marion 



Greeley, born August 19, 1859, died July '-• ''^'^7; 
Caroline Webster, born March 30, 1862, died 
August 12, 1891 ; William Thomas, born November 
19, 1869, graduated from Dartmouth College in 
i8gi, and subsequently a student in Harvard Medi- 
cal School ; and Helen Greeley Bailey, born March 
9, 1873. Mr. Bailey has done faithful and good 
work in his profession, and as a public man, 
has enjoyed the respect and esteem of his fellow 
citizens. 



IjARTON, Hui!r,.\Rii Ai.oNzo, Senior Editor of 
the New Hampshire Argus and Spectator, Newport, 
was born in Croydon, New Hampshire, May 12, 
1842, son of Caleb L. and Bethiah ( Tuck) Barton. 
His family is of English stock, its founders in this 
country having come here prior to 1636. Of their 
decendants, many have been prominent in the profes- 
sions and other walks of life. The great-great-grand- 
father of the subject of this sketch was a near rela- 
tive of General Barton of Revolutionary fame, and 
was killed at Bunker Hill. The great-grandfather, 
Benjamin Barton. Jr.. with two of his brothers, 
entered the army and fought at Bunker Hill, 
Bennington, West Point, and New York city. He 
married Mahitable Frye in 1779, removed to Croy- 
den in 17S4, and there was honored with nearly all 
the offices in the gift of his town. For seventeen 
years he was a Selectman and for fifteen Chairman 
of the Board. His son John was a successful fann- 
er, as was his grandson Caleb, who was born Feb- 
ruary 5, 18 1 5, and who is now retired from active 
life. Hubbard .\. Piarton received his education in 
the common schools of his native town, and under 
the tuition of John Cooper, a noted instructor. In 
his youth he developed a strong taste for journalism 
and wrote frequently for the press. In April. 1879, 
in company with W. W. Prescott, he purchased 
the Argus and Spectator, a Democratic newspaper 
established at Newport in 1823, by his great uncle, 
Cyrus Barton, a journalist of high repute. Since 
the fall of 1 880. the firm of Barton \' \\'heeler have 
published the paper, which, under Mr. Barton's 
editorial charge, has developed greatly, enlarged 
its forms, acquired new machinery, and widened its 
circulation. Aside from his labors in his own 
office, ire is correspondent of the New York Herald 
for Sullivan county. He was the successful Super- 
intendent of the Schools of Croyden from 1872 to 
1879. He is a member of Mount Vernon Lodge, 
No. iv .Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of 
Tabernacle Chapter, No. 19. Royal Arch Masons, 



Ml \ Ml I'KdC.KKSS. 



scrvin;^ :is Hij,'li Priest fur two years ; Sullivan C'diii- 
mantlcry Kni-jhts Templar; Newport l,oilf,'e. No. 
4i, Knij;hts of I'ytliias; t'iranitc State Cliil). and New 
Kn^rlanil Suhurbaii Press Association, lie is a 'rriis- 




II. A. liARlll.N. 

tee of the Richards Free I,il)rary. In |)olilics he i.s- 
a JetTersonian democrat, tirndv helievin;; in a strict 
construction of, and adherence to, the nation's con 
stilution as the only safeguard of personal freedom 
and |X)pular rule. .As a political writer, he has 
been dif^nilied and conservative. Mr. Itarton was 
married .April j;, iSSj.to KUa 1,. Wilmarth, daugh- 
ter of the late Jonathan M. Wilmarth of .Newport. 
They have one child: Henry \\ilm.\rth Itarton 
born September i(>, 1.S90. 



Il!,()()l). .\kkias, whose death November 24. 
iS(^7, deprived Manchester of one of her lar},'est 
manufacturers and best of inttiiential citizens, was 
born in Wealherslield, \ermont, ( >ctol(er X, iSiTi, 
son of Nathaniel and Ko.xell.ina (Proctor) Itlood. 
He cninu of .sturdy New Kngland stock, bein;; de- 
scended frfim lames lUofKl wlioi.iine to this coun- 
try from Kngland ami settled in ( 'oncord, M.issa- 
chu.sclts, in if>y). The family was prominent in 
the early history of (irolon and I'epperell. Massa- 
chusetts, .ind in the <lays of the Revolution ;;ave its 
quota of sol(lier<t to the Patriots' .Army ; Scw.ill 
IIUxhI, );ran(lfalhi'r of the subjeit of this sketch. 



bein;; one of those who served in this war. His 
son, Nathaniel, died in W'althain. .Mass.K husetts, in 
iS-jl). having reached the adv.uu ed age of eightv- 
seven vears. .\ret.is Hlood spent his bovliooil upon 
his f.itlier's farm, taking advantage of the schools of 
the town, and bearing his full share of the toil of 
the farm. M the age of seventeen he was appren- 
ticed to a blacksmilh, and wurked at the forge ff)r 
two vears and a half, .md then lurncd to something 
a liltle broailer which gave him more o|)portunity 
for the e.vercise of his meciianical and inventive 
lient. In iSjo he went to I'lvansville, Indiana, 
where for a year he followed his trade of machinist. 
I'pon his return to the Kast he was emploved suc- 
cessfullv in North Chelmsford, Lowell, and Law- 
rence, Massachusetts, where in the latter |)lace he 
was given charge of the manufacture of the tools, 
implements, and machinery for a large machine shop 
then in the course of erection. His abilitv and in- 
dustry won him promotion, aiul soon he assuinetl 
the inanagenient of the establishment. Mr. Iliood 
removed to .M.inchester in SeiUemlier. iS^^. where, 
associated with ( )liver W. liailey, he established the 
N'ulcan works, under the firm name of Itailey. Hlc)o<l 
iV Comiiany, the Inisiness being the manufacture of 
locomotives. In the spring of 1.S54 new buildings 
were erected, and in the same year the coni]iany 
was incorporated as the Manchester Locomotive 
Works, with ( )liver W. liailey as its lirst agent. He 
was succeeded by Mr. lilood in the active manage- 
ment three years later. The company's operations 
grew steadily, hundreds of locomotives being built, 
and in i.S7j, .Mr. Itlood bought the lire engine busi- 
ness of the .\moskeag Company, together with the 
patents and good will. The machine was remodeled 
and is now the old engine only in name. .At the 
works are now constructed between liftv and one 
hundred lire engines a year, besides other lire appa- 
ratus, hose carriages, cti . Mr. Itlood built the lirst 
horseless engine used in this country. The loco- 
motive department of the works has a cap.icity of 
being characleri/e<l by gre.it executive ability, in- 
domitable industry, foresight, good judgment, and 
sound common sense. Mr. Itlood w.is also I'resi- 
flent and Treasurer of the Nashua Iron .ind .Steel 
Companv ; President of the .\mes M,inuf.i> luring 
Company, of (hicopee. Mass.u husetis ; rii.i-.mii 
of the Ci lobe Nail Company of itoston. M 
setts; President of the .\moske.ig P.ipcT ( inup.iii) 
of Mam hester ; ( Iwner .ind Tre.isurei •■( iIh Mm 
Chester H.ir<lware Comp.iny of Mamli' 
urer .ind Prim ip.il ( )wnef of the M.iiiilusUi .^.l^h 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



and Blind Factoiy, Manchester ; President and 
Owner of the B. H. Pipeii Company, Manchester, 
which manufactures axe handles, spokes, base-ball 
bats, and the like ; Director of the Merrimack River 



V" 




AkKiAN r.l.ijDii. 

Bank from i860 to 1868 ; Director of the Manches- 
ter National Bank from 1874 to 1877, and from 
that time until his death President of the Second 
National Bank ; Director of the Wakelield Rattan 
Compan)f of Boston, Massachusetts; the largest 
stockholder and the President of the Columbia Cot- 
ton Mills of Columbia, South Carolina ; also con- 
nected with the \\'ater Power Company of the same 
place; Vice-President and Director of the Burgess 
Sulphite Fibre Company of lierlin. New Hamp- 
shire; owner of a large peg mill in Lisbon; 
the largest New Hampshire Stockholder of the 
Manchester Mills, and was elected President of the 
same succeeding Dexter Richards, receiving a re- 
election ; and Director of the Boston & Maine Rail- 
road for several years. How Mr. Blood retained 
his active control of these interests, which onlv in- 
creased with his years, nobody knows. Age brought 
him no rest, for his indomitable determination and 
will would not let him retire. The methods of the 
modern business man he never used. He knew no 
private secretary, no stenographer awaited his call, 
no typewriter clicked off his business letters. Much 
of his success he attributed to the early training he 



received from his mother. In politics Mr. Blood 
was a staunch Republican. His first vote was cast 
for William Henry Harrison. While he was never 
very active in politics his endorsement always car- 
ried weight and he served in a number of offices. 
He was twice Alderman, and was a Garfield Elec- 
tor. Although unostentatious in his charities he 
gave liberally to all worthy objects that met his ap- 
proval. An instance of his generosity was the gift 
to the Woman's Aid of Relief Society of Manches- 
ter of twenty-five thousand dollars, which made it 
possible for the society to acquire the building now 
used as its home. Mr. Blood married September 
4, 1845, Lavina Kendall. He had two daughters: 
Nora, wife of Frank P. Carpenter, and Emma, wife 
of Dr. L. Melville French of Manchester. 



BROWN, Elish.\ Rhodes, Banker, Dover, was 
born in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, March 28, 1847, 
son of Colville Dana and Mary Eliza (Rhodes) 
Brown. He is the seventh in descent from Chad 
Brown of Providence, and ninth in descent from 
Roger Williams of Providence on his mother's side. 




E. R. BROWN. 

He entered the Strafford National l!ank, December 
10, 1S67, and was elected Cashier, January i, 1S76, 
Vice-President, June 30, 1890, and President in 
January, 1897. On March 25, 1876, he was elected 
Corporator of Strafford Savings Bank, Trustee, 



Ml.N <>| I'KOC.RKSS. 



March 31, 1SS3, Vice-l'rcsi<lfnt, March 24. iSi)o, 
and I'rcsiilcnt, October 12, 1.S91. He is a Direc- 
tor in the Manchester iV Lawrence Railrnad. the 
Dover i\: \Vinnepisseof;ee Railroad, West Anieshiiry 
Branch Railroad, the Dover (Jas Lij^ht Company, 
the Dover hnprovenient Association, the Kliot 
Bridge C'onipany : and is a 'I'rustee in the I'ine 
Hill C"enietery, the Children's Home, and the Home 
for Aged I'eople. He is a corporate niember of 
the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
Missions, and Deacon and Treasurer of the l-'irst 
Congregational Church of Dover. He is a mem- 
ber of the Sons of the Revolution and of the 
Society of the Colonial Wars. In politics he is 
a Republican. Mr. Brown was married October 
iS. 1870, to Frances Bickford, daughter of Dr. 
.Mphonso Bickford of Dover. They have four sons: 
Alphonso l(ickff)rd. born January 23. 1.S72. a 
graduate of Andover. Vale College, and the Har- 
vard .Medical School; Harold Winthrop, born 
November S, 1.S75, a gratluate of .\nilover and of 
H a r\-ard College ; and Raymond Cioold and l'hili|) 
Carter Brown, twins, born August 27, 1S1S5. 



BCRMIAM. IIm.ka B\r,i.mr. Physician. Man- 
chester, was born in Chester (now .\uburn). New 
Hampshire, October 15, 1.S29, .son of .Miles and 
Salome (Hall) Burnham. < )n the |)aternal side he 
is descentled from Robert Burnham, who emigrated 
from Bristol, Kngland, in 1^)35. < 'n the maternal 
side he traces his descent frr)m Deacon Richard 
Hall of Bradford, Massachusetts. He attended 
the district schfK)ls of Chester, (iilmanton .\cademy. 
New Hampshire Conference .Seminary at Tilton, 
and Wesleyan I'nivcrsity at Middletown, Connecti- 
cut, until the close of the Jimior year when he was 
forced to give up his college course owing to ill 
health, due to over study. ,Some lime later he 
began the study of medic ine and surgery in the 
ofTice of the late Dr. \V. D. Buck of Manchester. 
He attended lectures at Berkshire Medii al Cidlege. 
i'ittslield, Massachusetts. I!,irvard .Medic .il College. 
Boston, and the Vermont Medical College at W'chkI- 
stock, where he received the degree of M. D. in 
1853. He subsequently took a course .11 ihe ( HI- 
lege of Physicians and .Surgeons in New Nork city. 
Dr. Burnham Iwgan gi-ner.il practice in 1H54 in the 
town of Kpping, removing to .Manchester in i.S.HS. 
II' «.\s np|M>inted Physician to the Rch kingham 
Cc)unty .Almshouse and the Ins.ine ,\sylum (r»n- 
nccted therewith in 1H71. holding (his pusiticm until 
188S, and was I'niled Slates Kxamining .Surgeon 



for Pensions from 1872 "SS. He was appointed on 
the slalT of the Klliot Hospital in M.inchester in 
iS.Scj, holding this post until i.S(/>, when he re- 
signed on account of ill lie.dth, and w,is elected to 



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the consulting si. ill. He is .1 member of the Kock- 
ingii.im District .Medical .Society, of the New 
Hampshire Medical Society, and the .\merican 
Medical .Association. While a resident of Rocking- 
ham county he was fre(|uenlly calleil into court to 
testify as a medical or surgical e.xpert. During the 
thirty-eight years of his active professional work he 
was frecpiently called in consult.ition with other 
physicians, and had a large surgical practice. 
.Since his remov.d to .Manchester, he has been very 
frecpientU' called in consult.ition espec i.illv in his 
former lield of practice, lb i^ .ii pn-., ii( pradi- 
callv retired from active pr.ic lice cil |i: inn 

on account of ill he.dth. He has a 1 ; crv 

and spends much of his linic- with his bcHiks. He 
was .Superinlendc-nl of Sc hnols in I'.pping. 1 '^ 
a member of the St.itc- I.egisl.itine in i^ 
Vice-President and Ch.iirm.in of (he linc-sting 
Connnittee of the I'.pping S.uings B.ink from i,S7.' 
to i.S.Sij. He is a M.i-.n 1 I'.-l Mrl.i ■ .f Snili 
van l.iKlge, No. 19, I 

Pipping; a member i>l I '■ M.iii 

Chester, and of SI. AH ' \ri li 

M.isons of |',\c-(cT. He 1 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



tics, but voted for the Democratic nominees from 
General Pierce to General Palmer. He married in 
i8q2, Mr.s. Lillia D. True of Manchester. 



BURNS, Charles Henry, Lawyer. Wilton, was 
born in Milford, New Hampshire, January ig, 1835, 
son of Charles A. and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) 
Burns. The Burns faniil\- is of Scotch orijjin. 




CHARLES H. r.URNS. 

The pioneer ancestor. John liurns, was born in 
1700, came to this country in 1736. and settled in 
Milford in 1746, where he died in 1782. His 
descendants have lived there ever since. Elizabeth 
Hutchinson traces her descent from Barnard 
Hutchinson, who in 1282 was living in Cowlan in 
the County of York. From his eldest son, John, 
Richard Hutchinson, the pioneer ancestor of Mrs. 
Burns, was descended. Richard came to America 
and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1635. 
Nathan Hutchinson was one of the first settlers on 
the territory within the present limits of Milford. 
He was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Burns. The 
subject of this sketch was educated in the common 
schools of his native town, which were of an 
unusually high order. He then attended the Apple- 
ton Academy in New Ipswich, graduating in 1854. 
He read law with Colonel O. \V. Lull in Milford, 
and was graduated from the Harvard Law School 
in 1858. In May of the same year he was admitted 



to the Suffolk ]!ar, and in the following October 
was admitted to practice in the New Hampshire 
courts. In Januar\-, 1S59, he commenced practice 
in Wilton, where he has remained ever since, 
though a steadily increasing business has necessi- 
tated his opening an office in Nashua of late years. 
He has been connected with many of the most 
notable cases tried in the state's courts. Although 
a good lawyer in all branches of his profession, he 
is especially distinguished as an advocate. He has 
one of the finest law and general libraries in New 
Hampshire. In politics he has been a Republican 
since the organization of the party. His father 
was a strong worker in the anti-slavery movement, 
and the son early evinced an interest in public 
affairs. For years he has been one of the party's 
ablest orators. In 1864 and 1865, he was elected 
Treasurer of Hillsborough county. In 1S73 and 
1879, he was a nieml)er of the State Senate, serving 
during both terms as Chairman of the Judiciary 
Committee. Governor Cheney appointed him Solic- 
itor for Hillsborough countv in 1876, and he was 
twice re-elected to that office. He was a delegate 
to the Cincinnati National Convention of 1876, 
representing New Hampshire on the Committee on 
Resolutions. He presided over the state conven- 
tion in 187S, making a strong speech against the 
greenback craze, which attracted national attention. 
In 1879, '^"^ ^^''^^ niLide Judge Advocate General on 
the Staff of Governor Head. He was appointed 
United States District Attorney for New Hampshire 
in 1 88 1 and 1885. Although he had not entered 
the field as a candidate, he had strong support in 
the senatorial contest of 1883. He is a member of 
the New Hampshire Historical Society and the 
New England Historical and Genealogical Society; 
an M. A. of Dartmouth ; and a Thirty-second degree 
Mason. Mr. Burns married, January 19, 1856, 
Sarah N. Mills of Milford. Of their eight children 
four are living. 



CARBEE, .Samuel Powers, Physician, Haver- 
hill, was born in Bath, New Hampshire, June 14, 
1836, son of John Hancock and Annie (Powers) 
Carbee. His father was of Scotch-Irish and his 
mother of English descent. He received his educa- 
tion in the common schools of his native town and 
at Newbury (\'ermont) .Seminarv. Later he at- 
tended Dartmouth Medical College where he was 
graduated November 3, 1865. He commenced the 
practice of medicine in Haverhill, November 20, 
1861^, and has remained there ever since. Dr. Car- 



Mi:X OF I'ROf.RI'.SS. 



'3 



bcc was County t'oinmissionLT of Ciraflon county lar position at l!ri(l;4tc)n. Maine In i.S4^. lie rc- 



from July i. 188510 July 1, 1.S.S9, Representative 
froni Haverhill in i.S95-'96, and was also Surfjeon- 
(Jeneral on the StatT of dovernor lUisiel during the 




moved to I'ennsvlvania fur the iinprnvenient of his 
health and taiijjht alxiut ten years in Myerstown, 
Lancaster, and llarrishur;;. preachinj^ often for 
churches of dilTerent ilenoniinations. lie became 
I'astor of the t'onj;rej;ational Church in Marshall. 
Illinois, in 1.S5:;. and remained there twelve \ears. 
Returninj; to New Hampshire, he took char;;e of a 
church in Deerlield. where his labors were f<illnwed 
bv a remarkable revi\al. .\bout one hundred and 
liftv persons were added to the three differeut 
churches of the town, .\fler more than si.\ years, 
in this lar;;je jiarish. his health a;;ain failed and he 
removetl to Kin^'ston. where he had lon^ been 
known as a teacher and preacher. After remaininjj 
there for seven years, he removed to Kxeter and eii- 
j.;a;,'ed in iireparinj; the f;enealo;^ies of his ancestors. 
He published " .\ Cienealojiy of the l-'olsom Fam- 
ily " in 1S.S2 ; •• The I'hilbrick ('.enealo;,'^y " in i.S,S6 ; 
'•Leonard Weeks and Descendants" in iS.Sij: 
■The l.ane (lenealofjies \'olume 1 ,"' in i.Sfji.and 
" Fdward Chapman and Descendants" in 1.S93. 
He has also written a " History of Kinj^ston. New- 
Hampshire." 1 Jurini; his residence in Fxeter he has 



s. 1'. 1 .\ki:kk. 

same years. I'rom October 26, i.S6;5. to theclo.se 
nf the Civil War in 1865, he was .\ssistant Surj^eon 
of the Twelfth New Hampshire \'olunleers. He 
served on the .School I'.oard for three years from 
i.S.S; and became President of the Trustees of Ha- 
verhill Academy in 1.S97. He joined Kane I,od;,'e, 
Free and .Accepted .Masf)ns. Lisbon. New Hamp- 
shire, in .Vu^just, i.Sfii, and l-ranklin Chapter, Lis- 
lx)n. New Hampshire, in iH6^. He is .1 charter 
member of < )me;,'a Council, joined the Mt. Iloreb 
Commandery, Concord. New Hampshire, in 18(15, 
and is Past Commander Nat West^ate I'ost, No. 50, 
(irnnd .\rmy of the Republic. Dr. Carbee has al- 
ways la-cn a Republican. ( )n .'septend)er ^o. 1885, 
he married N. Delia Huck. They have no children. 




( H.M'NLVN, J\<nii, Minister and F.ilucator, 
tjcctcr, was burn in Tamwdrth. New Hampshire, 

March 11, 1810, son of Samuel and Kli/.ibelh ' 

(lolsiim) Chapman. He entere<l Fxeter .Ni.idcmy fre(|uently been calle<l \i\ 
in 1817, |lartmr>u(li College in i8?i. and was ^jrad- s|Hiken in most nf the t hurchr 
uate<l fnim .Nndnver ■fheolo^jii al Seminary in 18^9. i8.|o. Mr. Chapm.in m.irried .Mii\ < 
In i8?5 he was Prim ipal of .111 .\( .idemy in l.yn- died in 18(19. He w.is .i^.iin m.itmil in 1871 (< 
don. \erninnl, ant! from 18^9 to i8.ji held a simi- M.iry I'.. L.ine. of Slr.ith.nn. N II 



1 iiul has 
In 

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14 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



CONANT, Henry Estes, Laundryman, Con- 
cord, was born in Karre. Massachusetts, May 24, 
1843, so'^ o*^ George \V. and Laura (Cheney) Co- 
nant. He is a direct descendant in the ninth gen- 
eration of Roger Conant. who, according to John 
Wingate Thornton, w^as the tirst and only Governor 
under the Sheffield or Cape Ann charter, as Endi- 
cott was the first under the second or Massachu- 
setts charter, and he is by some authorities rec- 
ognized as the first Governor of Massachusetts, 
The descendants of Roger Conant have been dis- 
tinguished in the annals of this country and have 
made their mark in all the various walks of life. 




HF.XRV K, Ct)NANT. 

The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch 
was a soldier of the Revolutionary \A'ar, and an 
earlier ancestor. Lot Conant, participated in King 
Philip's War. It is said by the genealogist of the 
Conant family that there were more of that family 
in proportion to their number who participated in 
the Revolutionary War than of any other family in 
the colonies. The names of seventy-three are 
known who served in that war. The ancestry of 
this branch of the Conant family in England were 
men of force and character, who rose from their 
environments to positions of importance and dis- 
tinction. Henry Estes Conant was educated in the 
public schools of Barre and .Springfield, Massachu- 



setts, and Norwich, Connecticut. His father died 
in i860, when he was but seventeen years of age. 
The War of the Rebellion occurring a year later, he 
enlisted in Company K, of the Twenty-first Massa- 
chusetts Lifantry for three years, and, at the close 
of his term of service, re-enlisted for another period 
of three years. Company K was raised wholly in 
the town of Barre. The Twenty-first Regiment of 
Massachusetts Infantry- was one of the fighting regi- 
ments of the war. It participated in twenty-two 
battles besides various skirmishes. In 1864, the 
regiment was transferred to the Thirty-si.xth Massa- 
chusetts Infantry, and, after Lee's surrender, was 
consolidated with the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts In- 
fantry. With the exception of thirty days' furlough 
at the time of his re-enlistment, Mr, Conant saw 
continuous service, from July, 1861, until he was 
nuistered out, July 12, 1865. At the time of his en- 
listment, he was delicate in health, and the hard- 
ships he endured, which to many of his comrades 
brought impairment of their constitutions, made 
him hardier and better able to make his way in life 
when he returned to civic occupations. He moved 
to Concord in 1S79 and entered the employ of the 
Concord Steam Laundr\-, which at that time was 
the only laundry in the city. After service there 
for five years he started a laundry of his own, in 
which business he has been eminently successful. 
In 1S92, Mr, Conant was appointed a member of 
the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of 
Concord, for the term of three years, being the first 
member of the board from the ward in which he resid- 
ed. In 1894, he was elected to the city government as 
a member of the Board of Aldermen, and, upon qual- 
ification, resigned from his position on the Water 
Board. In i8g6, he was re-elected to the Board of 
Aldermen, being one of the few members to obtain 
that distinction. He is a member of Blazing Star 
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Trinity Chap- 
ter, Horace Chase Council, Mount Horeb Com- 
mandeiy, and of Edwin A, Raymond Consistory. 
He is a Thirty-second degree Mason. He is also a 
member of Aleppo Temple. Ancient Arabic Order 
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is a 
member of White Mountain Lodge and Past Chief 
Patriarch of Penacook Encampment of Odd Fel- 
lows. Upon coming to Concord, he became a mem- 
ber of E. E. Sturtevant Post, Grand .\rmy of the 
Republic. He is actively identified with the Society 
of the Army of the Potomac and of Burnside's Asso- 
ciation of the Ninth Army Corps, Mr, Conant mar- 



MKN OF I'ROCKKSS. 



•S 



rictl Josephine K. lluntlcv. d.uij^litcr of Au^usuis 
Dana and Meliitable Jane (I'erkinM Huntley of 
Topshani, N'erniont, in Manchester. New Hamp- 
shire, May I. 1S7.S. Their only child is I, aura 
Cheney t'onant, who was born Noveinijer 6, 1891. 
Mr. C'onant is one of the substantial citizens of Con- 
cord. His residence there for a period of cijihteen 
years has made him many friends, lie takes an 
active interest in all public matters and such service 
as he has had in public life has been marked by 
patient attention to the public needs. The same 
industr)' that he gives to his own business is charac- 
teristic of his work in public employment and he 
enjoys the confidence and respect of his fellow citi- 
zens, lie takes great pride in the city of his adop- 
tion and anything that has for its object the atl- 
vancement of her interests receives from him cordial 
support. 



CON.N', Ck.vNVii.i.K l'Rih>;r. Physician. Concord, 
was bom in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, January 
2^. I S3 J, son of William and .Sarah ( I'riest) Conn. 
William Conn was the fourth generation in descent 
from John Conn, who came from the north of Ire- 
land about 1712, and died in (Jroton, Massachusetts, 
in 1759, at the age of seventy-si.\. Dr. Conn was 
educated in the common schools in Hillsborough, 
and at Krancestown .Academy, after which he spent 
two years at the Institute of Captain .Mden Part- 
ridge in Nor>vich, \'ermont. His professional edu- 
cation was received at Woodstock, N'ermont, and 
Hanover, New Hampshire, and he was grafluated 
from the .Medical Department of Dartmouth College 
in the class of 1S56, and received the degree of 
.\. M. from Norwich University, N'ermont, in 18.S0. 
He commenced the practice of his professifin in 
Randolph, N'ennont, in 1.S56. and nifived to Rich- 
mond, X'ermont, in 1861. In .August, 1862, he 
entered the army as .Assistant Surgeon of the 
Twelfth Regiment \'erniont \'olimteers, which was 
a part of the Second Vernuint liriga<le ( nine 
months men) and was nuistered out of the service 
July 14, iSfi.v He scttlejj in Concord, New llam|>- 
shire, ( )ctolH:r 19, 1863. In 1865. he be(anie 
a menilicr of the Hoard rif Health, and the following 
year instituted the first sanitary inspettion of a 
whole city that was ever made in the stale, and 
probably the first house to house inspection ever 
made in this country. After the State Hoard of 
Health was established in Massachusetts in 18(19, 
Dr. Conn commenced wurking for a similar boar<l 



in .New Hampshire, which w.is liroiiglit .dxiut in 
18S1. He was chosen its Chairman, and h.is been 
its President ever since. In 1S77, he was elected 
Railroad Conunissioner .md re-eleitedin 1S79. He 
is a member and .Medical Director of the (Irand 
.Army of the Re|)ul)lic. Department of .New Ham|> 
shire, was President of the -New Ham|)shire .Medical 
Society in 1S81. and has been its Secretary, with the 
exception of two years, since iSCnj. He is a mem- 
ber of the .\merican Medical .Association, the 
.American Public Health .Association, the Inter- 
national .Association of Railway .Surgeons, the 
.Medico Legal .Association of New \'ork. the New 



^^ 




(JKA.WII.I.K I'. t<INN. 

Hampshiii Mi ilii al Society, the Centre District 
Medical - lie Strafford District, and an hon- 

orary memljci 1.1 the \'erniont Medical .Society. Ik- 
is also a .M.i--'iii .mil Knights Templar, and a mem- 
ber of tl. I ilonial Wars. In |>olitics he 
is a Rc'pulilu .111. I )ii .M.iv 25, 185S, Dr. Conn was 
married to Hil' n M Si^iriu ..f R.indolph, \'er- 
mcjnt. The\ ik Winslow, a 
( ivil engineer ni I «isl.i Ru.i, t tiUi,il .America, and 
Charles I'tiller Cfinn Tn imih 1 ..f tin- P.nsi.in 
Tcmiinal Company, 1: 



C( ).\. t 11 M.:i p ■- I l.^ii- 

H.impshire ,state Prison, 



■1 the New 
was born in 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Holderness, New Hampshire, December 2, 1846, 
son of Walter Blair and Nancy (Nutter) Cox. He 
traces his descent on the paternal side, from Scottish 
ancestors. He attended the public schools of Hol- 




CH.'VRLES E. cox. 

derness and New Hampton, and the New Hampton 
Institution. Until he was eighteen, he lived on his 
father's farm. He was engaged in cattle trading 
in Concord from 1S66 to 1870, when he removed to 
Manchester, where he continued in the same busi- 
ness till April 30, 1887, the firm being Cass & Cox. 
In the following July, he obtained the control of the 
wholesale beef and provision trade of the G. H. 
Hammond Company at Manchester, engaging in 
this business until August, 1896. He was a Repre- 
sentative of Ward Six, Manchester, in the Legisla- 
ture in i885-"86, and subsecjuently served as Coun- 
cilman and Alderman from \^'ard Four. He was 
appointed Warden of the State Prison, December i , 
1896. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, a 
member of Washington Lodge, Mt. Horeb Chapter, 
and Trinity Commandery ; an ( )dd Fellow, a mem- 
ber of Hillsborough Lodge and Mount Washington 
Encampment ; and a member of Amoskeag Grange. 
In politics he is a Republican. On November 23, 
1867, Mr. Cox was married to Evelyn Maiy Ran- 
dall. They have four children : Walter Randall, 
Guy Wilbur, Louis Sherburne, and Channing Harris 
Cox. 



DAVIS, Samuel Wilbert, Physician and Drug- 
gist, Sanbornville, was born in Farmington, New 
Hampshire, February 17, 1864, son of Samuel and 
Betsy Caroline (Hayes) Davis. On his father's 
side he comes of English and Welsh stock, and is a 
direct descendent of John Erskine, Earl of Mar. 
His mother's family were of Scotch-Irish descent, 
his mother being a niece of John Brewster, founder 
of Brewster Academy at Wolfeboro, New Hamp- 
shire. From the district schools of his native town, 
he was sent to the Farmington High School, being 
graduated in 1882, and thence to New Hampton. 
He was graduated from the New Hampton Commer- 
cial College in 1885, and entered Bowdoin Medical 
School in 1S8S, attending, also, the Portland School 




SAMUEL W. DAVIS. 

for Medical Instruction until his graduation from 
Bowdoin in 1S91. From 1S85 to 1888, he had been 
engaged in teaching. In August, 1891, he began 
the practice of medicine in Alton, New Hampshire, 
and luly 4, 1893. removed to the town of Wakefield. 
He has been engaged in professional work in 
the village of Sanbornville and surrounding country 
ever since. In May, 1896. he opened a drug store, 
having passed an examination before the State Board 
of Pharmacy, and he now conducts the business in 
connection with his practice. He was a United 
States Pension Examining Surgeon during President 
Cleveland's administration. He is a member of the 



MKN ol 



'R()(;ki:ss. 



'7 



Carroll County Mctlii.il Associalioii. tlii; Hoard of .\u;;iist lo. iS.-;, son of i'.diiiunil and Sarah (Cer- 
llcallh in Wakcticld, Syracuse 1ahIj,'c, Knij^lilN of rish) I Jcarliorii. lie i> dt-sccndctl from Codfn-y 
Pythias. L'nity laulyc. Ancient Free and Accepted i)earborn, who came from Kxeter. Kn^'huui, in 
Masons, and Carroll Chapter of Wolfboro. In 1O3.S. and settled in I'.xcter. New llam|)shire. His 
lX)litics he is a Kepublican, hut believes in votin;^ 
for the best can<lidate for otlice. On November n), 
1SS5, he was married to Annie J. MontLjomery of 
StralTord. New I lampshire. 'I"hey have two children : 
Hessie Monttromerv. antl Charles Samuel Davis. 




IKINAIHK. John Juski'II. Insurance A^ent. 
Keene. was born in Keene, New Hampshire, 
Aiij,'ust 7. 1X59, son of James and Marj^aret (<,)uin- 
lan) Donahue. He is of Irish tlescent. His eilu- 
cation was received in the public school at Keene. 
For si.\ years he was a clerk, a commercial traveler 
for four years, and for seven years he has been in 
the insurance business. He is Grand Secretary of 
New Hampshire, Foresters of America, having 
been elected Januar\- 1, 1896; was Sachem of 
I'okahoket Tribe, Improved Order of Keil .Men, 
Keene. from Januan- 1, 1S94. to July 1 of the same 
year; and was the lirst President of th.- Moii.idnock 



SAMl'KI. I,. OKAKIMIK.N. 

maternal ancestor, .Stephen (ierrish. came from 
Itristol, Kn},dand, and settled in this country at 
about the same time. He was educated at the 
.Sanbornton (New Hampshire) .Academy an<l at the 
New Ilam|>shire Conferenie .Seminary. He was 
;,'raduated from the D.irtmouth Medical .School in 
November. iS4i>. and attended lectures at the Cni- 
versity of New \'ork and at the College <if Phvsi- 
cians and Surgeons. New Ndrk. When a boy he 
worked on a farm and afterwards t.iu^ht scIkmiI. 
.After a few months' practice in l'',asl Tilton, he 
opened an oflit e in Mont \ernon in Februar\. 
1S50, removed to Milfor<l, New H.impshire, in 
1.S55, .ind in 1.S73 went to Nashua where he has 
remained ever sinie. H •■ ^^ a member of the 
.State I.e;;isl.ilure of 1 He was .Surgeon of 

the F'i;;hih New H.impshire \ olunii'ers until ( dio- 
ber. i.S6^, and of the Fi;;lileenlh New Hamp- 
shire \olunteers front i.Sf>( lo llie clos*- of the w,ir; 
Cycle Cliih after its in< oriMiration. In (Militics he is Pension .Surgeon ihi' ap|Miinted by the 

a Kepiil>lican. Mr. I >■•"■'■■■■••< unmarried. Presi<lent. C.eneral bin,. . .i|.).oiiiied him in iS(<j 

to examine the ((indition of the- hospii.ds on ihe 

DK.VKIIORN, S,\MIH. (iKKKlsli, PhyHiii.in, Mississippi Kiver below New Orle.ins ,ind Lake 

Nashua, was born at Norlhlield. New Hampshire, l.a|X)n ; to be present at the battles at Ualon Koiij^e 




JoM.S }. IMISAIII K. 



i8 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



in the spring of 1862, all of which he attended and 
reported to him. In 1864, he served three months in 
the army before Richmond, Virginia. He belongs 
to the Order of the Loyal Legion, is a member of 
the New Hampshire Medical Society, of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association, and of the Masonic Lodge 
at Milford, New Hampshire. In politics, he was a 
Democrat up to the time of the war ; he has been a 
Republican ever since. On December 5, 1854, Dr. 
Dearborn married Henrietta M. Starrett. They 
have two sons : Dr. Frank A. and Samuel S. 
Dearborn. 



DRESSER, LoRiN A., Merchant, Berlin, was 
born in Albany. Maine, March 13, 1866, son of 
Jacob and Sylina (Heckler) Dresser. His parents 




nishing stores in the city. He started in business 
August 22, 1895, leasing a store in the Clement 
block and purchasing a small but carefully selected 
stock of dry and fancy goods. In si.x months he 
was obliged to have an addition built to meet the 
demands of his increasing business. In October, 
1896, he leased another store, and by throwing all 
together, has one of the best equipped stores in 
Coos county. Mr. Dresser was elected Councilman 
for Ward Three in March, 1897, when Berlin 
became a city. He is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias and of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
men. He is a Congregationalist. In politics he is 
a Republican. On October i, 1888, he married 
Emily D. Jewell of Berlin. Three sons were born 
to them : Clarence Jewell, Norman Bates, and 
Jacob \\illiam Dresser. 



EMERSON, J.\MES EnwARD, Rector of the 
Roman Catholic Church at Gorham, was born in 
Stoneham, Massachusetts, son of Daniel and Cath- 
erine (Morris) Emerson. His father's ancestors 
were of English descent and his mother's of Irish, 
He was educated in the public schools of Lowell. 



LORIN A. DRESSER. 

moved to lierlin in 1879, ■i"'^' 'i'^ received the 
common school education of the town schools and 
then took a course at the South Paris Academy. 
He entered the employ of the Berlin Mills Com- 
pany as clerk in its general store, remaining with 
the company eight years. He was afterwards 
employed by C. C. Gerrish & Company, and Stahl 
Brothers, and tilled all demands made upon 
him by these progressive firms. His work at these Massachusetts, at the University of Ottawa, Canada, 
different stores fitted him admirably for the posi- from which he was graduated in 1884, and later at 
tion which he was soon called upon to fill, that of the Laval University of Quebec, Canada, being 
Manager of one of the largest dry-goods and fur- graduated in 1888. In i8gi he was Chancellor of 




J.\MEs 



EMERSON. 



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the Uioccsf. Ri-itur uf the Cathedral at Manihoter 
in 1S05. and is at present Rector at I'mrhani. Sime 
locntiti" there he has hiiilt a new liuirili. 



KAS'l'.MAN. t.'ll\Ki.Ks l-KWki.iv. Menhanl and 
lianker. I.ittlelon. was born in Littleton. ( )etoher 1, 
i.S4i.s(>n of I'vrus and Susan I'rench (Tiltoni Kasl- 
nian. His ancestry is I'.n^'lish. lie reeei\ed his 
edneation in the connnon sihooU of I.ittlelon. in 
Thetford (\"ernK>nt( Academy, in K.ind)all Inion 




Kdnc.ilion. i.S.Sj-'.j j ; Trustee <if tlie Littleton I'ulilic 
Library. iSi,i-"(^(i. .ind .siei ret.iry ol the Ito.ird of 

Trustees dm in;; these years. He is a Thirty-second 
decree M.ison. .nid «.is Wdrshipliil M.isier of Hums 
Lodj;e. No. <)(>. Ancient Tree .ind Aciepted .Masons, 
in i>^iji-'ij-\, and laniiient ( ouini.inder of .st. Cierard 
Connnandery. Kni;;iils Tenipl.ir. in iSi(;;.'i,«i. In 
politics .Mr. Tiastnian is a I )einoc r.it. .md in i.S.Sj 
was nominated for Tre.isiirer of (Ir.iflon niunt\. 
and in iSi^fi for State .Sen.ilor in district .\o. Two 
by the I )eniocr.uii- con\entiotis. but declined both 
nominations. ( )n September 15. 1.S75. he was mar- 
ried to .M.iry Ida Tafl. dau^duer of Richard T.ift. 

They had two children : Richard T.ift .nid Ida Taft 
Kastman. ( )n March 4, i.S{;i, he was .1 second time 
m.irried to M.irv Rebecca Colbv. dan;iluer of John 
1>. Colbv. 



I'A .\NS. .\iimip l\\NOKi.i.. Lawyer and liank 
President. (;orli,\ni. was born in .Shelburne. New 
Hampshire. .M.irch ji. i.S.|i;. son of ( >tis and Mar- 
tha I). (I'inkham) Kvans. His paternal ;,'reat-^ranil- 
father ser\ed under \\'.ishin<,'ton .it Cambridge and 
his nioihrr's father. Captain M.iiiicl I'inkli.ini. built 



I 11 VkChs I. K\sl \1 \N 

.Academv of .Meriden. New Hanipslnn-, hhI i.iicr ,u 
the Kastman Commercial Colle;;e. l'ou;^hkeepsie. 
New York. He has been a Director in the LittU'- 
ton .Savinjjs Hank since 1.S.S4, was its \'ice-l'resi- 
dent fffun iSc^o to 1.S95, and has been its I'rcsi'lcm 
since that time. He has been a Director 
Littleton N.itional It.n ' of the l'..i^tciii 

liankin^; Com|)any. Il.i -ka, situ e i Sij'. 

of the Nashua Trust Company from iMi^o t<' 
of the C.ranite State Tire lnsuran<e Coi 
Portsmouth. New Ham|)shire. in 1.S.S7 and i 
and was Director and Clerk of the I'rohle \ Ir.in- 
conia Notch Railroad i 
■91 he was Selectman •■ 
i8i)5-'<)4; ( ommissioner of the Littleton lii^^hway the I'inkham Notih (• 
■■ in iSfji-"., I ' ■■•» \il- The subjei t of this sk 

irict in I I'tiion tion in the < ommon ■-■ 

School District. iMHj-'ij.i; member of the Hoard of eniy. and .it tin- ^ 




M I- K» l> K 



While N 



MEN OP PROCRKSS. 



with Bates College, — at Lewistoii, Maine. He was 
graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 
1872. In April, 1875, he was admitted to the Coos 
County liar, and has practised law in Gorham ever 
since. He was chosen President of the Berlin Na- 
tional Piank upon its organization. February 18, 
189 1, and still holds the office. On January i, 
1895. he was appointed Judge of Probate for Coos 
county. He was a member of the Legislature in 
i874-'7s and 1878. He is a member of the Maynes- 
borough Club, Berlin, and of the New Hampshire 
Club, of ]5oston. He attends the Congregational 
Church, and is an active member of the Masonic 
Fraternity. In politics he has always been a Re- 
publican. On June i, 1880, Mr. Evans was mar- 
ried to Dora J. Briggs. They have no children. 



ELLIS. Bertram, Editor of the Daily and Weekly 
Sentinel, Keene, was born November 26, i860, in 
Boston, Massachusetts, son of Moses and Emily 
(Ferrin) p:ilis. On the paternal side he is of Eng- 
lish descent through the Walpole (Massachusetts) 
branch of the Fllis family. On the maternal side 




r.KRTR.\M KI.I.IS. 



Harvard in 1884. After graduation from the Har- 
vard Law School in 1887, he entered the law office 
of Evarts, Choate X: Beaman in New York, being 
admitted to the New York Bar in 1888. From that 
year to 1S90 he practised his profession in Denver, 
Colorado, for a part of the time in partnership with 
L. C. Rockwell. He was called home to New 
Hampshire by his father's death. Becoming inter- 
ested in newspaper \vork he joined the Sentinel in 
1 89 1, and two years later became its editor. He 
was an Aide on Governor Busiel's staff in 1895 and 
1896, and in the following year served as a Repre- 
sentative to tlie Legislature from Ward F'our, Keene. 
He held the important post of Chairman of the Ap- 
propriations Committee and there won much praise 
for his labors for economy in state expenditures. In 
politics he is a Republican, and has been President 
of the Keene Young Men's Republican Club for the 
last five years. He is a trustee of the P^lliott City 
Hospital ; a member of the Keene Board of Educa- 
tion ; Secretary for New Hampshire of the Harvard 
Law School Association, and a member of the 
Wentworth, Monadnock Cycle, and Country Clubs of 
Keene. Mr. VAVis, was married on June 20, 1894, 
to Margaret Louise Wheeler, of Minneapolis, Min- 
nesota. 



he is descended from the Ferrins of Londonderry, 
New Hampshire, a Scotch-Irish stock. He attended 
the common schools of Keene, fitted for college at 
the Keene High School, and was graduated from 



FARRINGTON, James, Ph^-sician, Rochester, 
one of the oldest and best known practitioners in 
the state, was born in Conway, New Hampshire, 
lune 10, 1S22, son of Elijah and Lois L. (P'arring- 
ton) P'arrington. On the paternal side his great- 
grandfather was Stephen P'arrington of Andover, 
Massachusetts, who married Apphia Bradley, and 
his grandfather w-as Jeremiah Parrington of Con- 
way, who married Molly Swan of Fryeburg, Maine. 
On the maternal side his grandfather was Samuel 
Parrington of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, who 
married Miriam P.astman of Concord. His early 
education was acquired at F'ryeburg, Bridgton, and 
Limerick Academies. He began the study of 
medicine in 1841 with Dr. Ira Towle in F'ryeburg, 
under whose instruction he remained till 1846. In 
1844 he attended a course of lectures at Dartmouth 
College, and in 1S47 "'^s graduated from the Medi- 
cal Department of the LTniversity of New York. 
In March of the same year he was graduated from 
Dr. Whittaker's Medical School. Dr. Parrington 
began the practice of his profession in I'v.ochester in 
1847, being associated with his uncle, James P'ar- 
rington, M. D., one of the most distinguished and 
successful medical men of his day in New Hamp- 



\II\ <>I 



K( >('. RKSS. 



shire, a Mfiiil)cr ■>! ('<iii;,'rL-ss :\iul an iiiIUkiUi.i1 
citi/cn. I'pun the ckalli of his uiuic in 1.S51J he 
succeeiieil to the entire practice and has continued 
it until the present time. He has been for many 




J.WIKS KAKKIMiruN. 

years a niemher of the Strafford I (istrict Medical 
Society and the New Hampshire Methcal Society, 
and has prepared essays on many sulijecls of |)ro- 
fessional interest. He was elected President of the 
Rochester National liank in i.Syj. after service of 
many years as a Hirector of that institution, and a 
Trustee of the Nf>r\vay Plains .Savinjjs Hank. I'or 
more than forty years he has been a Mason, .ind he 
has tilled many important offices. He served as 
Hij^h I'riest of Temple <'lia|)ter in Rochester for 
ei^jht years, havin;; been ele< ted at its orjjanization. 
He is also a charter member of ['.destine Com- 
inandery. Knifjhts Templar, lie lieiame a mem- 
ber of the .Mololina I,(Kl^e.( »dd l-'ellows, in 1.S4.S. 
In ()olitics he is .1 Hrmoir.it. He has held several 
of the more important oHices in the towti, and in 
iHft;\ representejl Rochester in the Legislature. In 
i.S.Hr; he was a nieniber of the ( 'onstitulional Con- 
vention. He was elec-ted a member of (lovernor 
Tuttlf's Ciiuniil, holdin;; this office in tSi)t 't)2. 
On l-ebruary 27. i>^^i. he married H.irrielle 
Louise Chase. Two children have been born to 
ihcin : Nellie I'lorence (larrinKton) .M( DulTee. and 
Josephine Chase ( Larrinj;ton) Sanborn. 



l()Sri:R. liisiilA I,., is the oldest of a fam- 
ily of live brothers, vi/.: Joshua Lane, Jose|)h .Ad- 
dison. Daniel Kittredf^e. Lucius .\ii;^iistus. and 
Rinaldo Itrackett. sons of H.iniel Kiltred;;e and 
l.ydia(Lane) foster. The f.lther died in i.Sfx^. the 
niotlKT ill 1.S7V Ml ihc biulhers are now livin;^ 
except Daniel K., who died December 1 ^. i.S<^7. 
Joshua 1... for wiioiii this writing is inlenileil, was 
born at Canterbury. New 1 lampsliire. ( Ictober 10. 
1SJ4. When about three months old his parents 
moved to Chichester, .New Hampshire, to reside 
with his mother's father. Joshua Lane, and there on 
the Lane homestead he was reared. The father 
bein^ a noted school teaiher of those tlavs. at- 
Iciuled well to his earlv pri\ale instruction, then 
sent him for several years lo the district school and 
from there, later on. to I'illslield .\cademy. He 
continued there for four years, ami hail all the 
advantajjes of that hrst rate institution. He then 
spent about two years at Ciilmanton .Vcademy. then 
returned for two or three lenns to I'ittstielil and 
cf)m|ileted his academic education. He remained 
on the home farm for a few years, then beinf; of a 
mechanical turn he learned the carpenter's anti 
builder's trade to which he devoted himself for two 
or three years more. I!ut this not bein;; satisfac- 
tory he went away to study architecture and geo- 
metrical drawinj,' under the instruction of Professor 
Henjamin Stanton of New \'ork. .\fter coinpletinj; 
this course he marrie<l Miss Lucretia .\nn Ciale c f 
r|)per Ciilmanton. now lielmont, and returneil to 
his parental domitil for an intended permanent 
home. Hut it did not satisfy an«l he soon after 
mo\ed to ('imcord and ojiened an architect's oftice 
where he pursued th.it profession until the panic of 
1857 came on. which brou;;hl his and almost every 
other kind <if business to a standstill. He had, 
meanwhile, been a freipient contributor lo the 
newspapers, ,ind li,i\in;,' atlraded public attention 
in th.il wav he was ur;,'ed to enter the <-dilorial held, 
and with the late Dr. Joseph II. Smith boujjhl the 
Dover Cia/ette in 1.S5.S, entered into partnership 
with l''dwin .\. Hills, son-in-law of Dr. Smith, under 
the linn n.ime of |''<isler iV Hills, .ind t otiilut led the 
p.iper for about three years when Mr. T'osler sold 
his interest lo his partner ,ind .1 few months l.iler 
relurne<l lo his ar(.hite< tiir.il pinfrsvion it Mm 
Chester, but only for a short lini 
i.sr.^, when, on the urf^enl siili< it.iii"ii "I Ici.iiii;; 
Deinocr.ils of the Sl.ile, hi' "'"t t" Ponsmoulh 
where no Democratic papei 'i published, 

and started the weeklv Slates I in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



connection with the s;ime he began the issue of the 
Daily Evening Times with such pecuniar}- aid as 
was obtainable in those fateful days. It was con- 
ceded by all that he made exceedingly vigorous 
Democratic journals in accord with the principles 
insisted upon by Democratic patrons and backers. 
These papers were continued with unabated vigor 
until June, 1870. when Mr. Foster sold ovit to a 
couple of his employe's, and about a year later 
returned to Dover where — the Gazette having been 
discontinued — he started the publication of Foster's 
Weekly Democrat, the first issue appearing Janu- 
ary I, 1872. It made a sensation by the vigor of its 
editorial and local departments, and soon gained a 




JOSHUA L. FOSTER. 

large circulation. But a weekly paper having too 
long vacations between the issues, he decided to 
start a daily and the first number of Foster's Daily 
Democrat was issued on June 18, 1873. It had 
a hard struggle for several years. With the 
Democratic leaders and managers it did not always 
agree, and never hesitated to manifest its dissent 
when the editorial convictions required it. Its 
independence caused party opposition and other 
papers were started at different times for the avowed 
purpose of crushing out the Daily and Weekly 
Democrat, but they utterly failed in their work. 
With the very effective aid of his two sons, George 
J. and Charles G., well educated and practised in 



the business, the Daily has been pushed onward 
until no better and more successful newspaper 
e.xists in the State, and none anvwhere has a future 
more secure. In 1885, soon after the inauguration 
of Grover Cleveland as President, disagreeing with 
his politics, the Dailv Democrat came out squarely 
against his administration, boldly espoused the 
Republican side in politics and has ever since 
maintained its position with all the ability and vigor 
at command. The twenty-six years of laborious 
effort in this enterprise have been rewarded with 
sufficient success so that a worldly competence for 
the veteran editor and his family is assured. No 
one has wielded a more virile pen, and his strength 
and abilities as a political writer are conceded by 
all and never challenged to his detriment. Mr. 
Foster never had any desire or ambition for public 
office, but has always declined all tenders of the 
kind. He has, however, been elected unanimously 
for three successive seven year terms a member of 
the Board of Trustees of the Dover Public Librar}-, 
one of the most successful institutions of the kind 
in New England. He has represented the political 
part)- to which he belonged repeatedly in State 
and other conventions and in platform committees, 
where he has had the satisfaction of seeing his 
ideas and principles generally prevail. His aim 
has always been to hold his party to sound princi- 
ples rather than adopt any temporizing policy under 
the alluring but baseless promise of party success. 
So far as office is concerned he insists, as he always 
has through his newspaper life, that the editorial 
sanctum with its duties and responsibilities is the 
best office in the world ; that it furnishes opportuni- 
ties for the e.xercise of more influence and power 
than any other, and therefore satisfies his aspira- 
tions. The writer of this has always known Edi- 
tor Foster, is conversant w-ith the history of his 
life, and could write a book full of interesting inci- 
dents of his somewhat long and varied career, but 
feels that the space here allotted is necessarily 
limited to the more important points. His news- 
paper work for the last forty years has been an 
open book for everv'body. and with it the public is 
familiar. He is very much in the habit of thinking 
for himself and writing and printing his honest con- 
victions with a clearness and emphasis of expression 
not to be misunderstood and pretty sure to attract 
the public attention. He reads nearly everything 
worth reading so that his newspaper life has been 
a continuous education and he is, therefore, well 
fitted for his work. Quick of thought, he is a ready 



MIN (»l I'KoCkKSS. 



writer of ample vocabulary and imyieliling persist- 
ence. Mis lonjj experience in the profession 
enables him to easily determine what is suital)le or 
unsuitable for pul)licatir)n. anil his decision settles 
it. .\ wife, the two sons before named, and two 
daiijjhters, Lucia Klla. and Kna X'eille (both 
married, the former to .Mr. .Mercer (lootirich of 
Moslon. the latter to .Mr. i'red |. Whitehead of 
|)over) comprise his family. .\lthoii<,'h now ad- 
vanced beyond the allotted years of man. yet at 
this C"hristmastide .\. 1). iSij;. his mental faculties 
are unimpaired, as strong and clear as ever, and 
his presence is plainly manifest in the editorial col- 
umns of thi- Iiiilv I '.Ml." rat. 



temporarily. In July of ili.u \t.-ar he was cmploxed 
by the late .\nsel I)ickinson to establish anil man- 
age a bo.\ business .it .V-hiielot. New ll.im|)shire. 
In May. i.S(;o. he leased the box mill .if i:. Munsijl 
al Sw.inzey I'actory ; .ind in .\.'\ ember. iS.,j, In- 
removed his business to Heaver Mills. Keene. 
where it is still located, employing t«enty-tive to 
thirty-tive hands in the nianuf.Kture of loc k-torner 
woikI packing bo.xes. In .M.iv. iScj^. he bought 
and sulwlivided a portion i)f the (lovernor ll.de 
projjerty in Keene. Iai<l out streets, .ind built 
houses. He was elected a .Supervisor in (hester- 
tield in 1S.S5. In iS()3 he represented W.ird ( >ne 



of K. 



clic irt 



I III- ( '. MIMIK 111 ( ', .1111 



.ir later 



l'( )\\'l,Kk. llfck.-»cHfc.i. JosKi'H, Hox .Manufac- 
turer. Keene. was born in Alexandria. New Hamp- 
shire. April 23, 1.S49. son of Thomas L. and 
Nancy .M. (diles) Fowler. (In his father's side he 
traces his descent from .\bner Fowler, born in Kil- 
karney. Munster coimty. Ireland, in 1635. who 
came to America when a yoimg man and settled 
in .Salisbury. .Massachusetts. His great-grandfather, 
.\bner Fowler, was a .soldier in the Revolution, antl 
his grandf.ither. David Fowler, fought in the War 
of i.Sii and was wf)imded at Lundy's Lane. ( )n 
the maternal side he is descended from Captain 
Liceness. who came to this country with Lafayette, 
ser\ed under him in the Revolution, and at its 
close settled in .Stratham. New Hampshire. When 
his men returned to France the C.iptain paid them 
off, taking in return the then almost worthless 
securities of the I'nited .States. Mr. Fowler was 
efliicated in the common schools of his native town 
and in the academies at Chesterlield, New Hamp- 
shire, and Newbury. \'ermont. In 1.S66 he entereti 
the drug store of Howard iV Holman in Keene, 
remaining there three years. He was a year in the 
clothing and dry goods store of Whitcomb \- I Inn- 
bar in that c ity. and for .1 time was employed in .1 
clothing store in ,Milford, .M,issachuselts. He had 
a year's experience in a variety store in Medford, 
Minnesota, In 1H76 he bought his father's lumber 
and stave mill in Chesterlield, which he carried on 
until I.H.S;, when in cfimpany with J. C. |oslin he 
built a new mill and began the manufacture of 
jock-corner wckmI packing boxes. ,\bout two years 
later Mr. Joslin retired from the business. In tHHt^ 
Mr. Fowler eiig.iged in the manufacture of pails, 
an undertaking he conducte<I until the spring of 
1886, when through circumstanies over whi<h he 
had no control, he was obliged to give up business 




n I. KOWI.KK. 

was ell' Mderm.ii 17. In 

[Militiis lie i> .1 Republii .iji. Ik 1- .1 nuuilu-r nf 
Lod;;.' 'if T'lniili . I'ni- uul V. 1 epted .M.isnns. 
\li il: first on Sip 

li-nil.'t 1 I 1 . i>;!p. Ill l.ll.i .M. ( .11 ; 
M.u .' r i^s-: .1 (l.m-liti r \. l!ii 1 

i.l 
lime iii.inuil !■-■ .M.11I1.II.1 i;\.iiii. 111 I1.1-, \wi iiwng 
I liildren : I'red II. .nid <ir.iic I'. Inwlei. 



HILL. (;aki> 
born HI Winchi 
1H21), son of • ' I 
receive<I hi 



Ki'ilie. « .1^ 

\l . , . I, , 



the p 



MEN OF l'R()(;kKSS. 



of his native place, and afterwards attended tlie 
academies at C'liestertield and Swanzey, New 
Hampsliire. and at Saxton's River, ^'ermont. He 
was graduated from the Castleton Medical College 




CAkHNKR C. IIIIJ.. 

(Vermont) in 1856, and took a post-graduate med- 
ical course at Harvard Medical College in 1S66. 
Before commencing the practice of his profession, 
Dr. Hill taught school in Winchester, Swanzey, 
and Keene, in all about twenty terms. He began 
medical practice in Warwick, Massachusetts, in 
1857, and remained there ten years. In 1867 he 
removed to Keene and has been engaged in active 
practice ever since. He was a member of the 
Common Council from Ward Four for three years, 
being President of that body for two years, County 
Commissioner for three years. County Treasurer, 
two years. Member of the Hoard of FIducation in 
Warwick, Massachusetts, for nine years, and in 
Keene for twenty-five years, City Physician seven 
years, and County Physician five years. Since 
April I, 1897, he has been President of the Keene 
Savings Bank, and is a member of the Keene 
Board of United States Examining Surgeons. He 
is also a member of the Cheshire County Medical 
Society, Connecticut River Medical Society, and 
the New Hampshire Medical Society. In politics 
Dr. Hill is a Republican, and has been Chairman 
of Ward l-'our Republican Club in Keene for 



twenty years. In 1856 he was married to Rebecca 
F". Howard of Walpole. New Hampshire. She died 
in 1893, and he was a second time married in 1894 
to Carrie R. Hutchins of Keene. Having lost two 
children in infancv. named Harriet and William, 
he adopted three children : William H., Rebecca F^., 
and Daisy May Hill. Of these, only William H. 
Hill is livin":. 



HILI.S. iVNiiREw Jackson, Farmer and Me- 
chanic. \Mnchester, was born in \\'inchester. New 
Hampshire, October 20, 185 1, son of Elisha and 
Ar\illa (Dickinson) Hills. His father was born in 
Swanzey. New Hampshire, October 20, 1810, and 
died in \\'ellsville. New York, December 30, 1889. 
His mother was born in Swanzey, May ij, 1808, 
and dieil in Winchester, October 5, 18S9. His 
paternal grandfather was Moses Hills, and his 
maternal grandfather, William Dickinson. His 
education was received in the district and \illage 
schools. He was elected to the General Court of 
the state for i897-'98. Mr. Hills is a Mason, a 
(;ran"er. and a member of the Eastern Star, the 




ANDREW J. HILLS. 

Golden C'ross. and the Pilgrim Fathers. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. 



lACKSON. George F'rederick. City Solicitor 
of Nashua, was born in Canning. Ncna Scotia, 



MIN (>1 l'Kn(;ki;ss. 



I'cliruary 14. i.'^<il. sun of J.iiiicn I . .ind >.n.ili K. liiuus. In Jamuiry. iSi;;. Ik- w.is dii led Citv 
(Smith ( Jackson. His father was a <lfscc-iulant uf Solii itor of \aNhiia, and itcU-i led in |anuar\. 
Wiliiain Jackson of Mcdford, Nova Scotia, whose i.S<;.S. Mr. Jaikxin is a nieinlier of in.uu or"an- 
fatlier was a native of Lancashire, luijiland. < >n izations, .nnon;; them licinj; the < UKI l'ellow> of 

Nashua, the IJks of .M.iiuhester, Knij^hts reni|jlar 
and Scottish Kile Thirty-sei dikI l»e;;rec .Masonic 
Hollies <if Moston, .M.issachusetts. Mr. lackson 
served the Sl.ile of .M.issacliusetts in Company 1 '. 
I'irst l\e;;iinent Infantry (now lle.uy .\rtillerv) 
ko.\i)ury City Cuard of Moston. for live vears. and 
is at present a inemher of the .Xnt ient and Honor- 
able .\rtillery Company of ll<ision. In jxilitics Mr. 
lackson is a kepuhlican. 




i;K<>RC,K K. JACKSON. 

the maternal side he is a descendant of J.imes 
Smith of Oldtown. Maine, his ^jrantlfather heiiifj 
William .Smith of Windsor. Nova .Scotia. Mr. Jack- 
.v)n receivetl his early edui atimi in Moston, where 
his parents removed when he was four years of 
aye, in its piililic scluxils and at the lioston Com- 
mercial Colle;;e. He l)e;;an his liusiness life in the 
wholesale sinallware business as ilerk, in a Moston 
house, and later was employed as travellin;^ sales. 
man for some four years. He was next employed 
in a manufacturing company, where l>y ac( ident he 
lost his rif;ht fore-arm. .Shortly after ret nxerin}.; 
from his injuries, he entered the l.iw otiii e of Cap. 
t.iin H. It. .\thertrin of .N'ashu.i, as ,1 student ,it l.iw, 
where he remained for two years, after which lime 
he entered the Moston I'niversily .Si hool of l.,iw, 
and to«ik the entire three years' course in two years, 
f;r.iduatin^' with the de;jre»- of 1. 1.. II. from tint 
institution in June. i.Si;|. The following; Julv he 
took the examination for admission to the .New 
Hampshire Mar, standing ,it the head of ,1 rl.iss of 
thirteen < andid.ites. He immediatel) formed a 
co-partnership with l->lw,ird H U ason. uiuler the 
lirm name of Wav>n \ j.ii kson, whii h still ( on- 



l.l%Kr. {;i-.iiKi:i-; I'jpHAKii. I'lusician. Concord, 
was horn in Clareinont, .New Hampshire. .March 29, 
1.S51, son of (leor^^e II. and .Sarah I'. iChase) I.eet. 
His ancestors were amon|,' the first to settle in Con- 
necticut, afterwards moving; to Claremr)nt. New 
llainpshire. He received his education in the 
common schools, and by the aiil (»f private instruc- 
tion. He entered I )artmouth .Medical Collejje and 
was ;,'ra(!ualeci in 1.S77. He l>e;.;an the practice of 




me(li( ine in C.ina.ui. N« >• 

lier. 1.S77. and • in ,<• \; 

lor seventeen \i 1 he tiv 

In i-Si^) '1^ I he was a men 

• if ( 'anaaii, also ,1 membei 



26 



MEN OF PROCRESS. 



for several years. He is a member of the New 
Hampshire Medical Society and the White River 
^'alley Medical Society. He is a member of the 
Masonic Lodge of l-jitield, .St. Andrews Chapter, 
and Washington Council of Lebanon. He is also 
an active member of the American ^Mechanics and 
also of the Grange, and has held offices in a number 
of these societies. He is a member of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Society, and is a Republican. On 
February 14, 1878, he married Katherine E. Saw- 
yer, of Claremont. They have two sons : George 
Paul, born F'ebruary 22. 1884, and Edward Don 
Leet, born Julv 25, 1887. 



LIBBEV, I'rkd Sumner, Lumber Dealer, Wolf- 
boro, was born in \\'olfboro, New Hampshire, Octo- 
ber 17. 1865, son of Alvah S. and Abbie E. (Pray) 
Libbey. After graduating from the Wolfboro High 
School in 1883, he entered the New Hampton 
Literary Institution in August. 1883. He was 
graduated in June. 1887, giving the honorary 
address to his literary society, the Social Fraternity. 
He next entered Jiates College in August. 1887. 




FRKU S. I.IBHEV. 

from which he wajj graduated in 1891. ha\'ing the 
parting address to his class, of which he was 
President. After leaving college he was elected 
Principal of the Camden, Maine. High School, 
which position he held until September. 1895. when 



the death of his father called him liome to settle the 
estate. In ( )ctober, 1896, he bought out the 
interest of A. J. ^'arney. for thirty years a partner 
of his father in the lumber and box business under 
the firm name of Libbey iv: Varney. In January, 
1897. he and his brother, E. J. Libbey, bought the 
interest of the Libbey estate and are now carrying 
on a large and A-ery prosperous box and hmiber 
business under the firm name of Libbey Brothers. 
Mr. Libbey was elected Moderator of the town at 
the last election. In politics he has always been a 
Republican. In religion, a Free Baptist. He was 
married on August 27. 1892, to Sara E. Deering, 
of Pittstield, New Hampshire. They have two 
children : Frederic Alvah and Elizabeth Louise 
Libljey. 



LIBBEY. Hexrv Cl.w. Lumber Merchant, 
Li.sbon, was born in Bethlehem. New Hampshire, 
August 2. 1839, son of Nathaniel and Tirzah (Lord) 
Libbey. His great-great-great-great-grandfather, 
John Libbey, was born in England about the year 
1602, and came to this country about 1630 and 
settled in what is now Scarborough, Maine. He 
had twelve children. His oldest son, John Libbey, 
was born in England but was reared in Scarbo- 
rough, Maine. He took an active interest in the 
public matters of the town, and served as Selectman 
in the year 1670, also in the years 1674, 1683, and 
1687. In Ma\-. 1690. he moved to Portsmouth, New- 
Hampshire, where he lived until his death. He 
followed the calling of miller, and was frequently 
chosen to fill the minor town offices. He lived to 
a very old age. His son, Benjamin, was born in 
Scarborough, Maine, June 4. 1682. moving to Ber- 
wick, Maine, and living there until his death. He 
was for many years one of the principal inhabitants 
of the town, being frequently placed on the most 
important Town Committees, and was from 17 19 to 
1736 .Selectman. He was one of the original Pro- 
prietors of Lebanon, and took prominent part in 
the early management of that township. He was a 
Deacon of the Congregational Church for thirty-six 
}ears. Mr. Libbey died November 9, 176S, His 
son. Charles Libbey. was born in Berwick, Maine, 
December 29, 1721, and married Abigail Hilton, 
December 27, 1744. He was a farmer, living and 
dying on his father's homestead. His death 
occurred in September, 1772. They had twelve 
children. His son, Captain Charles Libbey, the 
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born 
in Berwick. Maine. December 16, 1749, was a 



Mi\ ')| l'ki>(;Ki-.« 



Revolutionary solilicr, .iiul scukil iii I.lIi.iiu'H in 
1791. N'athiinicl l.il>lii\ fMllowctl the sea in Ills 
early days, and l.ii _cd in lunilierinj; in 

Hcthleheiii. The subjctl nl this sketch was the 




youngest (if a faniilv "f 1 liven thildren. At the 
age of eleven nionli ^ left fatherless, and 

when he was se\en )e.u>. <>( ai^e his mother died. 
He was thus thrown upon the world at an (.arly age. 
and worked at dilTerent i)la< es for his hoard until 
he was thirteen, when he heg.m doing the wurk of a 
man. He attended the < ..nin,,.!, schools at White- 
held, hut his education w uiited. At twenty 
years of age he bought .1 s.iwiuill, paying three 



'■■'■■ I'T twelve 

proved 

\lder Itrook 

If li.i-. Miiie 

( ". r I 1 1 ! 1 1 ■ SI 1 1 1 ■ 



hundred doll.irs down .md givln ■ !■! 

hunrlred. This, his lirst hu- 

successful. .md in 1.S71 he I" 

mill property which he ni.ni.i„ . 

eighteen years. «lis|Xising of the in: 

fie then went to l.islxm. where 

resided. In i.H«4 he organized i' 

(llovf Company, .inci hec.inie its 

I oncern I onsolid.iied with the .'s.if.in.ii dlnket 

pany of Littleton, .md Mr. lahliev i>> l'resi<len: 

the same. Me h.id .1 share in forming the I'.irker 

iV Young .Manuf.M turing ( onip.iny in 1H.S4, tif 

which he was made I'residetit. U hen its es|,d>lish- 

ment was Iturneil in ■•S>)i, he w.is one of the le.idcrs 

in the rebuilding. At present it is one of the 



l.irgesl ni.muf.iclorio of its kind in tin- lountrv. In 
i.Si)4 he severed his connection with this enterprise, 
anil is now largely engaged in the lunilier business 
in Kimouski, l'ru\ince of (Juebei. He is I'residi-nl 
and .Manager of the Lisbon i;lei trie Light ( dui- 
pany and a stockholder and Hireitor in the Lisbon 
.National bank. .Mr. Libbey is strongl) Republican 
in his political \iews. but has never t.iken a \ery 
active interest in politics. I'or several vears he was 
Postmaster at Alder iirook. In i.S()j he w.is .1 
member of the State LegisLiture. lie is a member 
of Whiletield Lodge, .\iuieiit Iree and .\ccel)ted 
Masons, .md is a faithful attendant of the Methodist 
Church. < )n November 22. iSTi^. .\Ir. Libbey w.is 
married to Lllen .\l.. daughter of Henry Thomas of 
Littleton. They li.i\e li.id four children: Itlani he 
r.. born September 7. i.S(.(. : Herman '['.. liorn July 
(>. iSOlS: deceased .\ugust i). 1X1)7: Crace K.. born 
June 1^. iS'S: and luliel M. Libbey. born .\MgMst 

LISC(»M, Lkmi Ki. Ikxnki.in. I .irnier. Hins- 
d.de, St,ite Sen;itor from the Fourteenth Histrict, 
w:is born in Hinsdale. I'ebruarv 17. i.S4i,son of 
l.enniel. ;d. ,ind |-'.nier;incy (Hortoni Liscom. < >n 
the paternal side he is of Lnglish descent: on the 
maternal. Scotch and l-aiglish. The Liscom f.imily 
c;ui be traced in the old records of I lorchester and 
I )orchester South I'recinct mow Cantoni, Massa- 
chusetts, which show th.it I'hilip Li.scom married 
Charity J udson in 1701, and in r; <l from 

I )orchester to the South I'recinct. I'liili|i. 

2(\. settled in Rehoboth {now 1. md his 

grandson, I'hilip. ?d, was a resident ol Canton, 

whose children moved i' ' '-^- '•■ Minsilale. 

New Hampshire. I.enuM 
^, 1 707, w.is with his l.iilii 1 
defence of Horchester .iP'i 1 
in the Revolutionary U'.ii 
twelve years old .k (|uir 
1 1.- I„ , mil. ,1 f,irmer ■'■■ 

d died July : 
botii lebruary ir;, i,sii 
.1., ,,!,,> of Lymnii ,\ (.' 

.d in th.ii 
il mto busiii' 
. ; sc-lling ' ■■ 'I 
.md found 1: 
ing a coal lire in In 
St rale the heatiiv' ■■ 
successful veai 
account of I 



.\|.ril 


at the 


•■-■•Is. 


■ Ill 

It, 



111 

lie- 



28 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



farming and lumbL-ring. He took a prominent part 
in town affairs, served as Selectman and Justice of 
the Peace, and held other town oflfices. Politically, 
he was a Whig, and later a Republican. He was a 
devoted member of the Paptist church, as was his 
wife, a daughter of Hezekiah Horton, and a kins- 
woman of Lord liurnham of England. Lemuel F. 
Liscom, the subject of this sketch, attended the 
town schools, completing his studies at Kimball 
ITnion Academy in iSdo. In August, 1862, he 
enlisted in Company A, Fourteenth New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers, and saw much service. He was 
on duty much of the first year at the National Cap- 
ital and along the Potomac ; was then transferred 
to the Department of the Gulf and went with his 
regiment up the Mississippi. He was at the siege 
of Petersburg and at the second battle of Malvern 
Hill ; fought in eight engagements in the Shenan- 
doah Valley ; and at Augusta, Georgia, had the 
satisfaction of assisting Jefferson Davis on board a 
United States gunboat. He returned from the ser- 
vice with the rank of Orderly Sergeant. After the 
war Mr. Liscom was employed by the National 
Bridge and L'on Works, Boston, becoming Super- 




I.F.MIKI. F. I.ISCOM. 

intendent of Construction, and in that capacity hav- 
ing charge of the building of the train houses of 
the Boston iv Lowell and Boston & Providence Rail- 
roads. He put in the first iron bridge on the \'er- 



mont Central at Dog river, constructed many fine 
bridges and buildings, and was his own engineer. 
Mr. Liscom returned to Hinsdale in 1880, to care 
for his aged parents, and after his father's death 
bought his farm, on which he now lives. He 
makes a specialty of hay and tobacco, selling about 
eleven tons of the latter each year. In i89i-'92, 
and again in i8g3-'94 he served as a Representa- 
tive in the .State Legislature, and in 1897 took his 
seat in the Senate, having been elected by the 
largest majority vote ever cast in the di.strict. 
\Miile in the Legislature he formed the first " Farm- 
ers' Legislative Council " ever held in the state, 
its object being to give weight and influence to the 
agricultural element. He was one of the first to 
advocate moving the Agricultural College to Dur- 
liam, in order to secure the Benjamin Thompson 
school fund, and he has been a warm friend and 
supporter of the college. During his first term in 
the House he was Clerk of the Committee of 
Roads, Bridges, and Canals, and in his second. 
Chairman of the Public Improvements Committee. 
As a Senator he is Chairman of the Committee on 
Claims. In the House Mr. Liscom introduced a 
bill providing for an electric railroad from Hinsdale 
to 15rattleboro, Vermont, which was defeated. ( )n 
its second introduction, however, both parties 
agreed to refer it to the Supreme Court. As a 
Senator he introduced a measure to give the Con- 
necticut River Water Power Company a franchise 
to build a water system across the river between 
llrattleboro and Hinsdale, for generating electricity 
and other power. Mr. Liscom is a strictly temper- 
ate man and a hard worker in the interests of his 
constituents. In politics he is a Republican. He 
is a member of the Masonic Commandery in 
Keene; of Sheridan Post No. 14, (irand Army of 
the Republic; of the Red Men; and of the (Irange. 
He married, l"'ebruary 21. 1S72. Dollie Amelia, 
daughter of Orvin T. Mason of Truthville, New 
Vork. a woman of noble character, who died March 
2, 1896, leaving two children: Flora Dollie, born 
January 22, 1875. '"'"^' ^Fn'}' Edith Liscom, born 
October 31, 1878. 



LITTLE, Georce Peabody. Farmer and Stock 
Raiser, Pembroke, was born in Pembroke. New 
Hampshire, June 20, 1834, son of Elbridge Gerry 
and Sophronia Phelps (Peabody) Little. He is in 
the eighth generation from George Little who set- 
tled at Old Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640. He 
received his earlv education at the Lewiston and 



\ll\ <'l i'Kn(;Ri;ss. 



-'■) 



I'diibriikc ;icaclL-iiiics, and at the Military lii.slitutc iluirtli, ami lias aKva\s hut-ii a Kcpulilit an. ( »n 



at IV-mbrokc a bramh of the N'orwiih Military 
Acatlumy of N'cniioiit. At the ajjc of L-ijjhtccn he 
taufjht school. The folluwinj; year he left home to 




Aiij,'iist j». iS^i. he married llli/alielh Ami Kiio.x. 
I'hey have si.\ ( hihireii living;: ('l.irenee lieUlen. 
President of the lirst .National liank of Itismarik. 
I>akota, who has heen a Stale .Senator sinee 
li.ikota hecame a stale; .Mary (;eor;;ian.i. wife of 
James !■;. ( )dlin. of l.uni. .Massaeluisetls ; I'.li/aheth 
I'.llen, wife of I.. I-. Thurher. of N'ashn.i : .\etlie 
K., wife of I'r.mk !•!. .Shepard. ( 'on< ord ; laiev 
liowman: and (l.ir.i I'r.imes. wife of H.irm.in S. 
Salt, of Ihooklyn. N.N'. One child. (;eor;;e W il- 
lard Little, died in i.S^.S. 

I.( )l'(;i''.l'",. (iKoKia-. W'oniiwuK rii. I'lnsii ian. 
freedom, was horn in i;i)in;,diam. New Hampshire. 
June T,, 1X59. son of .Sylvester T. .nul Kn.imah 
( r>urlei;;li) l,ouj,'ee. ( >n the paternal side he is of 
i'Yeneh descent, and <in the maternal of |-;n;,'lish. 
lie attentled the common schools of l-'.l1in<;ham .ind 
I'arsonslielil Seminary, and liej^an his profession.il 
studies under the instriittion of I )r. .\ui;ustus I). 
Merrow of freedom, lonj; a leadin;,' |)ractitioner. 
and was ^'raduated from Itowdoin ( 'ollefje in the 
mediial class of iSS^ lie was tirst associated with 



i;Ki)ki;K. V. i.irri.K. 

•■■"K-'K^' '" niercantile Inisiness at Cortland. .M.iine. 
Here he remained si.x years, ami then went to lios- 
ton for a short time. Ourin;; the next (en years he 
mana;;ed a photo;.;ra|)h fjallerv at I'almvra, New 
N'ork. In 1.S6.S he returned to i'etnhroke, pur- 
chased the present homestead, and en;,',i;ied in 
farmin;; and the raisin"; of blooded stock, makin;; 
jersey cattle a specialty for a time. .Mr. Little w.is 
I >eputy Collector of l'nile<l States Revenue in I'al- 
myra. New N'ork, in iS(,<< '<,y. Town Tre.isurer of 
Pembroke in iSSi 'Xj, Selec Iman in iS.Sy '.S-S '.S.^, 
was elected to the l.e;;isl,ilure in 1S76 and 1.S77, 
when elections were annu,d, .ind in iSfji; was a 
member of the ( °onstittition,d ( 'on\enlion in i.S.SS; 
was County Treasurer four years ; and is ,1 |irs|i(e 
of the Peace. lie is .1 Trustee of the Ciu.ir,int\ 
Savinfjs Hank of Concord, ,ind .ilso of the Pem- 
broke .\cademy. Tor many ye,trs he w.is ( h.iir- 
man of the Kxe< ulive Committee of the latter, .ind 
is now Secretary and 'Treasurer. He is a member 
of the Concord llisloricil Soi uiy and the Nc-w 
ll.impshire Club of Itoslon. He is ,1 Thirty-sei ond 
decree M.ison, a Knijjhts Tenipkir, .inci an < )dd 
Tellow. Hi- is .1 I >e.iccin in the CcmKri'Kation.il 





his liilor. but Liter established .1 pr.i 
whiih h.is been larf;e and hi' ■ ■ 
ve,irs he was a member of |i 
T'.ftinj;h,im. .mil (or ll 



3° 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



similar office in Freedom. In 1897 and "gS, he was 
elected a Selectman of the latter town. Since 
January. 18S7, he has been Coroner for Carroll 
county. He is a member of Carroll Lodge, Ancient 
Free and Accepted Masons of Freedom ; Carroll 
Chapter of Wolfborough ; St. Paul Commandery 
of Dover ; Costello Tribe, Red Men, of Kezar 
Falls. Maine; Prospect Lodge, Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, of Freedom, of which he was the 
first Noble (jrand ; Mt. Chocorua Encampment of 
Madison ; Carroll County Medical Society, of 
which he was President in 1895, and New Hamp- 
shire Medical Society. He is a Democrat, and has 
taken a very active interest in politics. On Novem- 
ber 25. 1885, he was married to Edith Louise Mer- 
row. daughter of Dr. Augustus D. Merrow. Thev 
have two children : Louise Marguerite, born Sep- 
tember 16, 1893, and Hayes Lougee, born Decem- 
ber 6. 1896. Dr. Lougee has a very wide circle of 
friends in and out of his profession. 



NEWTON. LeRov Allan. Physician, Walpole, 
was born in Greenfield. Massachusetts, January 
28, 1863, the .son of .\llan Nims and Anna Maria 




LEROV .\. NEWTON. 



(Ferguson) Newton. He attended the common 
schools of Greenfield, and for two years was a 
pupil at the high school of the town. At the age 
of fifteen he obtained employment, and learned the 



tinner and plumber's trade, and a little later 
accjuired another trade, that of a watchmaker. 
While employed by a jewelry firm in Saratoga, New- 
York, he gave much attention to physical culture, 
becoming a highly successful instructor in this 
branch in the Young Men's Christian Association 
gymnasium at Saratoga, and the Glenns Falls gym- 
nasium. He had read medicine for a year, when 
he entered the medical department of the University 
of PennsyKania in 1892, being graduated in 1895 
with the degree of M. D. For a time he practised 
in Boston, but at the beginning of 1896 removed to 
Walpole. He is a Charter Member of the Saratoga 
Gentlemen's Club, and a member of the Saratoga 
Choral Union, the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
the Cheshire County Medical Society, and the New 
Hampshire Surgical Club. He is the author of a 
number of papers on professional topics. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. Mr. Newton was married. 
September 15, 1897, to Minnie Isbell. 



McCOLLESTER, Sullivan Holnl\n, Clergy- 
man, Instructor, Traveler, and \Vriter, Marlborough, 
was born in that town December 18, 1826, son of 
Silas and Achsah (Holman) McCollester. He is of 
Scotch descent, his ancestor, Samuel McCollester, 
coming to America as Captain of a company of sol- 
diers with his brother, who was captured by the 
Indians, and held as prisoner for sometime. They 
settled in Dorchester. Massachusetts. Sullivan 
McCollester now owns and lives upon a farm pur- 
chased by his great-grandfather, Isaac McCollester, 
who settled in Marlborough, in 1764. He attended 
the schools of the town, early developing a strong 
taste for study, and at the age of fifteen became a 
pupil in a select school, and afterwards received a 
thorough academic training in the seminaries at 
Swanzey, Dublin, Jaffrey, Winchendon, Massachu- 
setts, and Brattleboro, Yermont. He entered Nor- 
wich University in the winter of 1847. '^'""1 was 
graduated in the summer of 1851. Two vears 
later he was graduated from the Cambridge Divinitv 
School, and took charge of the Mount Ctesar Semi- 
nary at Swanzey, New Hampshire. Dr. McColles- 
ter — the degree of D. D. was conferred upon him 
by St. Lawrence University (New York) in 1874 — 
had seen practical service as a teacher in Richmond 
and Walpole before taking his collegiate course, 
and proved himself thoroughly fitted for his post at 
Swanzey. There he did double duty for five years, 
preaching as well as teaching, organizing two new- 
church societies in different parts of the town. 



MIA (>1 I'KiiC.KI'SS. 



which prDspercd cxi tcum^i\ uiniir iii-- i .irr. 1 htii 
for four years ht- was I'astor of the I'nivers.ihsl 
societies in Westinoreianil aiul West t'liesterlielii, 
preaching; part of tlie time in eaih town. buiUliii;; 
up the inemliersliip of the societies ami iiureasin'; 
their rehjjious zeal. Successful labors in char;;e of 
the \alley Seminary showed that his interest in 
eilucational matters was as keen as e\er. Durin;^ 
his residence in Westmoreland, he was elected 
School ('ommis>ioni.-r of t'heshire county, an otlice 
he held initil 1.S51). He was also appointed Presi- 
dent of the State Hoard of Commissioners, and in 
the winter \ isited schools and lectureil on education, 
while in the spring he held Teachers' Institule>. 
He was called to Westbrook Seminary, near Port- 
land. Maine. April, i.Srd. ( )f this institution he 
was the heail for ei^'ht years, his administration 
being marked by a phenomenal growth of tlie 
school, which reached its greatest development 
under his care. In 1864, he obtained a charter for 
a I'eni.de ( 'ollege. the first Stale-chartered institu- 
tion of the kind in .New Kngland. In the course 
of his stay at Westbrook. moreover, he built up a 
prosperous church. Hard work and a hard climate 
told upon l)r. .McCollester's health, and in the smn- 
mer of iS()(i he found it necessary to lay down his 
labors for a time and travel aliroad : and twn years 
later he was obliged to gi\e u|) the school, and seek 
a region less trying than the .Maine coast. His 
next charge, the pa.storate of the Iniversalist 
Church in N'a>hua. brought him more hard work 
and more success. The congreg.ition grew : a par- 
sonage was bought; societies in various (le|)art- 
ments were formed : and it was with deepest regret 
that at the enfl oi three years his resign.ition was 
accepted. I)r. Mc< ollester had been called to the 
presidency of Huchtel College, .\kron. ( >hio. where 
for si.x years he again pro\e(l himself an indefati- 
gable worker in the interests of the college, besides 
building up a strong church in the city. Ill-he.dth 
once more forced him t" Mck rest and ch.inge 
of scenes abroad, bi > he was resolutely 

id building a church 
nt. Ill less th.in two 
years from the time In- unflertiK.k the «cirk, a 
stt'. 1 parish w.is worshiping in .1 new 

ann e<lihc c, free frMiii di Kl MU n. \l 

charge was in l>rivcr, and tli 
diftii nil a»hifvement of inrnint; ,1 .m .ik 
one full of vigor .ind e.irnestiiess. He 1 
pastorale in 1MM5. and sinie then has <!• 
.self to foreign travel, literarv and missuni.ii v Aoik. 



.imi nil- nu|hi \ i~i. .11 . .| |.iili|ic schools. lie is the 
.luthor of •• After I iinuglits of lorcigii Tr.ncl in 
Historic l..inds .ind ( '.ipital (itics; " •• Koiiiul the 
Clobe ill ( »ld .111(1 New I'.iths;" ••|lab\loii .md 



.^^. 



*^^. 




>. 11. M. coli.i>ti:k. 

N'ine\ eh through .\merii.iii l-!yes : " .ind •• .\le\ico. 
I >U| and New. a Wonderland." He has corres- 
poniled for the itostmi Transcript, the Ifoston |our- 
nal. the Christian I.e.ider. the journal of Txluca- 
tion. I'ortl.ind Transi ript. .ind many other papers. 
In i.S.Si; 'i)o. he was in the New ll.inipshire Legis- 
lature and W.IS Ch.iirman of the Committee on 
T'.diication. He has been for some years President 
of the New Hampshire Inivei- 1- 

tion. and is an earnest tcin| i.j 

organizer. He has usually voted with the Kepiibli- 
i.in party. \H. Mel is .1 ji. 

belonging to the Ith: mi Win. . .,c 

Chapter in Portland, \; I the Kniuhls Tem- 



iiii'i 

( '.llMi;lil K infill 

NT (■..•;.. I. I T. 

;lu' I liuu li 
\TC..I1. St, , 

II)'. ..1. 



32 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



study the people, as well as the lands and places. 
He has been at five different times in Ireland, Eng- 
land, Scotland, France, (iermany, Switzerland, and 
Italy ; once in Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Spain ; 
twice in 15elgium, Holland, and Genoa ; three times 
in Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey ; once around the 
world, spending considerable time in Japan, China, 
India, islands of Indian Ocean ; went up the Per- 
sian Gulf to Babylon and Nineveh and through 
Arabia ; through the United States and Me.xico. 
He has visited the Universities of Dublin, Edin- 
boro, Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, 
Munich, Vienna, Tunis, Heidelberg, Padova, 
Bologna, Rome, Athens, Bombay, Tokio, etc. He 
visited many of the public and private schools of 
these different countries. In all, including our own 
country as well as foreign, he has been into more 
than a thousand different schools corresponding to 
our common schools. He has lectured since 1870 
more than nine hundred times in various places on 
his travels, educational subjects, and temperance. 
He has attended since he entered the ministiy in 
1853, eight hundred and fifty-three funerals. He 
has married rising two hundred couples. During 
the forty-five years in the ministry, he has preached 
sixteen hundred different times on Sunda\'s, but his 
chief work has been done in the seminary and col- 
lege. 



same ward. He is an Odd Fellow, a member of 
Rumford Lodge. In politics he is a stalwart 
Republican, and a firm and practical advocate of 
temperance. In October, 1864, Mr. Patterson was 



PATTERSON, S.amuei. Fdi.sdm, Secretary of 
the A]nerican International Association of Railway 
Superintendents of Bridges and Buildings, Concord, 
was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, January 
23, 1S40, son of Joab and Mary Levering Patter- 
son. He numbers among his ancestors some of 
the first settlers of the state, men of sterling worth 
and broad and liberal views, who bore their part 
in directing the social and political tendencies of 
the Commonwealth. He received his early educa- 
tion in the district schools and in the academy at 
Contoocook. He served three years in the army, 
reenlisted in 1865, was commissioned F'irst Lieu- 
tenant, and served until his regiment was mustered 
out. Before going to the front he was an employe 
of the Concord & Montreal Railroad, and after the 
war he returned to the company, becoming foreman 
of the bridges department and subsequently being 
promoted to his present position of Superintendent 
of Bridges and Buildings. He has served the road 
for thirty-four years with zeal and fidelity. In 
i895-'g6, he was Alderman from Ward Six, Con- 
cord, and in iS97-"98, was Representative from the 




S. F, PATTERSON, 



married to Susan E. Hersey, and in ( )ctober, 1890, 
to Mrs. Ida M. Paul. He has two children : 
George H. Patterson and Mrs. Marv H. Ring. 



ROBINSON, Henrv, Lawyer and Journalist, 
Ex-Mayor, Ex-Postmaster of Concord, was born in 
that city, July 14, 1852, son of the late Nahum 
Robinson, Warden of the New Hampshire State 
Prison. Nahum Robinson was a contractor and 
builder, who did much toward the advancement of 
the city of Concord. He was the first construction 
agent of the post-office building, superintended the 
erection of the fine railway station, and was in fact 
the Building Agent of the Concord Railroad for ten 
years. Henrv Robinson attended the public schools 
of Concord, and studied under private tutors at 
Boston and elsewhere ; attended the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School ; and later returned to his native 
city to pursue his legal studies with the late Judge 
Josiah Minot, Attorney-General Mason W. Tappan 
and John Y, Mugridge. He was admitted to the 
Bar in 1875. In the successful practice of his 
profession he was associated with Colonel F'rank 
H. Pierce, a nephew of President Pierce, and also 



MIA (»l I'KOCKKSS. 



33 



with Kil;;.ir II. U ooiiiii.m. Mr. KoliiiiMiii c.irly 
developed a strong likinj; fur politics. In iSyij he 
was clcctuil a nicnibcr of the l.e;;isiature. and since 
then he has re|>eatedly served in that hoily. In 
iSSi he was a stron-; candidate for Speaker, Init 
witlulrew in the interest of his father-in-law. the 
late I'niteil States .Senator KdwartI H. Rollins, who 
was a candidate for re-election. In iSSj; he was a 
niemlier of the Senate. In both branches of the 
Lejjislatiire he scrve<l upon important connnittees, 
beinjj Chairnian of the Mouse Railroad Coniniittee 
at the time of one of the most memorable contests 
in New Knj^land, and Chairman of the Jutliciary 
fommittee of the Senate, althouj;h he was its 
youn<;est member. I le was active in all le<;islative 
proceedinjjs. anil j;ained the reputation of an able 
debater. In .May, 1S90, he was appointed Post- 
master of Concord. lie .served four years and 
achieved {^reat success in the conduct of the office. 
In 1S95 he was electetl .Mayor of Concord, anil 
served two years. In spite of the many other 
demands u|X)n his time he has written much anil 
well, for newspa|)ers and for the periodical press. 




^ 



«» 



df" 



msu\ Kiiiii\M).\. 

.As a |>olilicnl writer he has been i-s()ei i.dly active, 
and his twm ,lf f>/iinif of •• Jean Paul " has heroine 
cxccedinf;ly well known anion),' New l'.n);lancl 
newspa|H.T reailcrs. lie h.is been a voluminous 
<oii'"'"'-' to journals out of New l''.n;;l.itid .is well 



.IS in it, .mil h.is been on the staff of the New \ork 
Tribune, Springlield Republican, llosion Clobe and 
other Iciilin^; newspapers out of New Hampshire, 
while he has furnished to the press of the state a 
v.ist amount of readable matter. I le is the author 
of many papers on non-|)olilical topics. While 
Postm.isier he prepared a number of articles u|)on 
subjects connected with the serviie which brou-iht 
him the commendation of the Postmaster Cieneral. 
.\s .1 leclurijr he has been very successful. In 
religion he is liberal. In politics he is ,1 Republi- 
can. Mr. Robinson was married ( )ctober 10, 1.S7.S, 
to Helen .M. Rollins, only daughter of Senator 
Rollins. Tiiev have .seven children. 



RISSKI.I.. 1-KANK Wi.i.sTKK. .Merchant. Ply- 
mouth, was born in that town June 22. 1.S47. the 
son of William Wallace Russell and Sus.m Carlelon 
(Websten Russell. He comes of a family whose 
members have distinguished themsehes in the mili- 
tary ser\ice of their coiuitry. His father, a mer- 
chant of Plymouth for lifty-live years, was the son 
of .Moor Russell, who was a soldier in the Revolu- 
tionary War. and wlio w.is in peace a successful 
farmer and merchant, and the founder of the busi- 
ness now conducted bv his gr.mdson. Moor Riis- 
.sell's wife, Hetsey Webster Russell, was a ilaughter 
of Lieut. Colonel Haxid Webster, who commanded 
a regiment of militia in the Revolution. Still a gen- 
eration further back Pelatiah Russell of l.itchlield. 
New Hampshire, ser\efl as a Lieutenant in the "Old 
l-'rench War." Mr. Rus>ell .iltended the schools of 
Plymouth until he was ten years old, and later he 
studied in a |)rivate schoul at Concord, Phillips 
.\cademy. .\ndover, the Mayhew .ind the Latin 
schools of ltoston,the High ScIumiI ,11 Detroit, Mich- 
igan, and the Collegi,ite and Connneri iai Institute 
at New ll.iven. Cmniei tii ut. He w.is ,ipp<iitilii| .1 
Cadet at the Cnited Stales Military .\»a.l 
West Point, being graduated June 15. i.Si. 
was a Seionil Lieutenant in the Sixth C.iv .ib 
ing with his regiment at New ( )rle.i 
tier duly in Tex.is. Kansas and tin Inuiin lim 
tory. Cpon resigning from the :irm\ he reiiirinil 
to Plvmoulh. In 1.S7J and '; 
with his broiher, Willi.im U imisv, 
ll.i/eii I >. Smith in lln- manuf.K tiire •>( 1 
and in I'ebruary of the - 

kee|H-r for Webster, Hull .\ « ■.nn'iin. m. i. n mi ■ 
This tirm w,(s smieeiled in iK;^ l>\ \\i-l.si<-i Rns 
sell .V < ompany, whii 
.Mr. Russell, who \\ ■ mm mi" i 



34 



MEX OF PROGRESS. 



formation, is the surviving partner. He served in 
the New Hampshire National Guard on the staff of 
General Daniel M. White, brigade commander, as 
Captain and Aide-de-(^imp from May 28. 1884, to 
December 11. 1885. and as Major and Assistant 
In.spector-General from December 11. 1885. to 




FRANK W. RUSSELL. 

May 15. 1 889. He is a member of the Sons of the 
American Revolution. Cavalry Societv Armies of 
the United States, United States Cavalry Associa- 
tion, Military Service Institution. Olive Branch 
Lodge. No. 1 6. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
Pemigewasset Chapter. No. 13. Royal Arch Masons. 
Omega Council. No. 9. Royal and Select }klasters of 
Plymouth, and Pilgrim Commandery. Knights Tem- 
plar of Laconia. In politics he is a Republican. 
Mr. Russell was married October i, 1S73, to 
Louisa Webster Hall. Two of his children. Clara 
Louise and Mary Louise Russell, died in infancv. 
His eldest son. William Wallace Russell, is a bank 
clerk at Wells River. Vermont, and another son. 
George Moor Russell, is a West Point Cadet. His 
other children, Susan Carleton, Waher Hall. Louis 
Webster, and Frank Henry Russell, are attending 
Plvmouth schools. 



of Daniel H. and Lydia Sanborn. He was brought 
up on his grandfather's farm in Wakefield and edu- 
cated at the common schools and Academy in that 
town. At the age of eighteen, he began teaching 
school in the winters and continued most success- 
fully in this work for twent}- terms. \Mien a voung 
man he purchased a farm and became an active 
and industrious farmer. Soon after he also engaged 
in buying and taking cattle to the markets, and car- 
ried on a lumber business which up to 1870 was 
e.xtensive. He had a large probate business for 
some years. He was a Selectman of the town of 
\\'akeheld in i856-'57. was a member of the Legis- 
lature in i86i-"62.-a member of the E.xecutive Coun- 




SANBORN. John- William, Railroad Superin- 
tendent and Banker. Sanbornville, was born in 
Wakefield, New Hampshire, January 16, 1822, son 



JOHX W. SAXBORX. 

cil in 1863, was a State Senator in iSj^-'j^. being 
President of the body during the latter year, was a 
member of the Con.stitutional Conventions of 1876 
and 1889 and was Democratic candidate for Con- 
gress in 1880. He has been a Trustee of the New 
Hampshire Insane Asylum ; is now a Trustee of the 
New Hampshire Agricultural College, a Director of 
the Manchester & Lawrence Railroad, and of the 
Portsmouth Fire Association, Director and \'ice- 
President of the Granite State Fire Insurance Com- 
pany and President of the Wolfboro Loan and Bank- 
ing Company. Early in life he became interested 
in the improvement of the means of transportation 
and travel, and was active and instrumental in the 



MIA or IMvOC.KISS 



35 



fXtunsion of the I'ortsmouth. Circ.it I .ilN iV t onu.iy 
Railroad, l-'nun 1S74 to 1S.S4 lie was Su|KTintci\tl- 
c-nt of ihc Coinvay Division of the Kastern Railroad; 
is now and has been from that time Siiperiiiteiident 
of the Northern Division of the Itostoii \ Maine 
Railroad; \v;is actinj; (lencral Manajjer of the Hus- 
ton \' Maine Railroad from [•"ebruarv 4. i.Siji. to 
March 1. 1^94. Sanbornvilie, at the junction of 
the main line of the Xorthem Division of the Bos- 
ton A: Maine Railroad anti the \\'olfl)oro iJrancii, 
was named for him. aiul it is throiij^h his activity 
and effort that the place has been built up to be 
one of the most im|X)rtant in Carroll county. .Mr. 
Sanborn was a strong; I'nion man durin<; the w;ir 
and was active in enlisting soldiers for the .service, 
contributing large sums of money to carry on the 
cause, and was influential in matters of state relat- 
ing to the war. 



I'll'KR. (11 \m.K> l-KANcis. of Wolfboro. son of 
Kenjamin \. and Mannah (Kvans) Piper, was born 
at I.ee. .New Hampshire. .May 22. 1.S49. His grand- 
f.„|„.. 1.1... 1.;...,. ,...,..,1 ,., c.i 1 <, Muincl's 




1 IIARI » f. IMI'Kk. 

Regiment in the kevolutinnary W ar from 1777 to 
17H0. and was (■t>r()oral in Captain Jaiob .Smith's 
Rangers in 1781. Mr. l'i|H'r reieived his i'dn< .ition 
in the rnmmon scho4}|s anti at ihe Wolfboro and 
•|„f,....i Ncadeiny. I'rom i.Hf.,H to 1.S7 • he was a 



iIliIv. Ill .1 LiiiiiitrA sttijr. .111(1 «.is .1 pMst.d ( lerk on 
the route from Itosion to liangor from 1S72 to 
1X7(1. He then commenced business in a clothing 
store in Wolfboro, in whiih he still continues, ;ind 
has been Cashier of the Wolfboro l.o;in and Hank- 
ing Company since it was incorporated in iSijo. 
He held the otVue of l'osini;ister four years; has 
served ;is Town ( lerk ; \\,is Representative in the 
Legislature of i,S,S7 ; h.is been Town Tre.isurer ten 
years; a member of the Republic .111 .State ( ommittee 
since 1S7S, ha\ing served on the l-'.xeciitive (om- 
mittee for sever;il ye.irs ; and h.is been a Delegate 
to every Re|)iiblic;in St;ile Coiuention siiue iS.So: 
ami is at present a member of Covernor Ramsilell's 
Council. He Ijelongs to liie .Morning Star Lodge 
of Masons, Carroll Chapter, ( lrph;in Coiini il, an<l 
.St. I'aul Connnandery ; also to the ( )rder of Red 
.Men. ami Lake Shore (Irange. He marrietl Ula K. 
Durgin. December 10. 1S74. They have one son: 
C.irroll D. Piper. 

S\\(ii;i\. Ill AUhKis K/K.\, Honidop.ithic Phy- 
sician, Littleton. w;is born in Troy, \ermont, NLirch 
12. i.S^j,.son of K/ra and Sarah NL ( lirown) San- 
ger. He is the grandson <if Kleazer Sanger, who 
was the third of that n:ime. Lle;\/er Sanger the 
second was born in Petersh;im. M.issachusetts, in 
17;,, and with his brothers K/ra and .Miner was at 
the taking of (Quebec and Port Ticonderog.i. during 
the i-'rench and Indian war. They were also mem- 
bers of the foot comjiany from Keene, New Hamp- 
shire, which marched on the .il.irm from Hunker 
Hill, Richard ,S;inger who w;is born in Lngland. 
;ind was the first of the family toiome to .\merica. 
settled in llingh,im, NLiss;u husells. in i('.^(". In 
171JO, the grandfather of the subjei t of this sketi h 
moved to St. Johnsbtny, N'ermont. Dr. Sanger 
received his ediiiation in theiummon schools of his 
native town ;ind in the Si. Ii.lins1,ni\ \i id. nn 
graduating from the l.ittcr .it n 

He then l,iuglil si hool for some liiiu,,illti »lii. Ii lit 
.uiepted .1 position in .1 drug store in I'..!..!., (tin.. 
Here he liegan Ihe sliidy rif mediiiii' 
vears .iltended lei lures in Phil.iili'Iplii.i. lit tin 11 
entered the olVu e of Doitois Slone iV S.miI..,iii it 
,S(, johnsbiiry, and ,dso studied with I >i I 
L)ndon, \ermonl, .\ lillle l;iter he iiili n <l tin 
Homiiop,ilhic College .1 I'MI i,I. lulii 1 fi..in «lii.li 
he was graduated iii 

Har<lwi( k, \ermont, rem. lining llii i< !**• ' • 

1.H5.H, he moved (•■ I nilii..!' «liii. In I n 



36 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



active practice ever since. He has the cHstinction 
of being the first physician of his school in Northern 
New Hampshire. He has been most successful 
professionally and financially, and is highly esteemed 
as a citizen. Formerly, his practice extended over 
a wide field but lately has been confined to the town 
of Littleton. In 1867, the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Honufopathic Medicine was conferred 




T. K. .S.\NUER. 

upon iiim in recognition of services. He was 
appointed by the general government in 187 1 to the 
position of Surgeon for the United States Pension 
Bureau.' This position he held until the Cleveland 
administration, when he resigned. Since 1865, he 
has been a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
Society, of which he was President for several years. 
In 1870, he joined the American Institute of Hom- 
oeopathy. He is a member of Burns Lodge, Ancient 
Free and Accepted Masons, of Littleton, joining in 
December, 1870. In 1882. he was made a Knights 
Templar, and in 1885 became a Thirty-second 
degree Mason. He has been Master of his lodge 
and has held the important offices of the order in 
the state. Dr. Sanger married lanthe C. Kneeland, 
daughter of Willard H. and Cleora (Woods) Knee- 
land of Victory, Vermont. They have three daugh- 
ters : Ellen I. Sanger Parker, an artist by profession 
deceased March 3, 1890, and Lillian E., now Mrs. 
F. E. Green, and Katherine Sanger of Littleton. 



RICH, Georce Frank, Lawyer, Berlin, was born 
in liethel. Maine, December i, 1869, son of James F. 
and .Sarah Ellen (Bean) Rich. When he was eight 
years old his family moved to the West, living in 
Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Manhattan and 
Lawrence, Kansas. He attended the public schools 
in these places, and returning to Bethel in 1886, 
fitted for college in Gould Academy in that town. 
For three years he was a student in the University 
of Maine, leaving that institution in 1891. He next 
attended the Law School of the University of 
Michigan, being graduated in 1893, and subse- 
cjuently admitted to the Bar of Michigan. In July, 
1894, after studying for a year in the office of 
R. N. Chamberlin, in Berlin, he was admitted to 
the New Hampshire Bar ; and in October of the 
same year became junior partner in the law firm of 
Chamberlin & Rich, which still continues. He was 
appointed Judge of the Police Court of Berlin 
by Governor Busiel in Jime, 1895, and now holds 
that office. He is a member of the Republican 
State Committee, the Knights of Pythias, and 
the Ancient ( )rder of United Workmen. On June 




GEORGE F. RICH. 

10, 1896, Mr. Rich was married to Persis M. 
Mason of Berlin. They have one son : Robert 
Rich. In his college days he took an acti\-e part in 
athletics, and after going to Berlin played on the 
local base-ball team, which achieved the reputation 



MiN ()!• I'Kik;ki:ss. 



,w 



of till.- l)L->t luiic 111 NiiilliLiii New ll.itnpshirc. 
Rc(c:'ly. however, picssurf of hiisiiiL-ss has forced 
him til i:ive up tlie iwstime. 



SI'.\I.1>1N(.. John At'i-.isriNK. li.inker. Nasluia. 
was born in Wilton, New lianipsliire. May >(j, 1.S37. 
son of Moses and Anna II. t Kimball I SpaUlinj;. 




JOHN A. SI'AI.IUM.. 

He traces his descent from luiward Sp.ililin:;. uho 
came to America from, {•aij^laiul about nd 

who founded here a family, many of wlinsc uicMibers 
have distinj;uished themselves in the linancial 
world, in the workshop, in science and in medicine, 
in philanthropy anti in statesmanshi|). Mr. .Spald- 
ini; was educ.ited in the distrii t schools of Wilton. 
and in (■rosl>y"s ,\<ademy. Nashua. \1 the .i;;i- of 
thirteen, he went to work as a < lerk ui .1 ilothin^ 
store, and at nineteen be;;an business in Nasliu.i on 
his own .iccount. When the I'irst N.ilion.d It.ink 
of the city was established in i!«\\. he w.is electerl 
Cashier, a |>ost he held for thirty-two ve.irs. Then 
he was n».ide \ice-l'rcsident of the institution, 
his son, William K. .Spaldin;;. succeedin;.; him 
a.H Cashier. Mr. Spahlin^; has dealt cxtensivrK 
in real estate and has many other interests. lb js 
a Itirector in the Wilton and Wi>r< ester. Nasliu.i \ 
kiH liester Railroads, an<l w,is the tirst I'resulent of 
the Nashua .Street Railway, lie is a 'Irustfo of the 
New ll.uiipshire .\syliim for the Ins.ine. lie was 



Chairm.in ol tlic lust bd.uUnI I'lilaet 1 iiissioners 

for NasluLi. In i.SOj and i.SoO, he was a Repre- 
sentative in the l,e;,Mslature and in 1.S70 a .Senator. 
Me was a member of the (lovernor's Council in 1.SS5 
and 1.S.S4. and .M.iyor of .Nashua in iSSj. He was 
a Carlield Injector, a I )elc','ate to the St. Louis Con- 
vention of i.SijC). and Chairtnan of the Republican 
State Conunitteein iSijlt and iSi)-j. lleisa Thirty- 
second Dejjree .Mason and an ( Idd l-ellow. havinj; 
passed throuj;li the ofticers' chairs in ( )dd I'ellows. 
both iiranches. and he is a Red .Man. .Mr. Spald- 
inj; was married on October 13. 1.S59, to Josephine 
i;. Kastman. ( )f iiis children. William K.. burn 
I >ecember 13. i.Sdo. and Harry l\. Spaldinj;. born 
June I I, i,S6j. the former survives. ( )n November 
24. 1X70. Mr. S|)aldinj; was aj,Min married to .\nna 
M.. dau-hter of lir. K. J. Learned of I'all River. 



SI'tlNi;. Ml IAIN Tn KNuk. I'liysici.in. Troy, 
w.is born in West lioscawen ( now Websten. New 
Hampshire. July .:o. 1S54. son of Hiram C. and 
Mary .\nn C. ( Ticknor) Stone. His j,'reat-};rand- 
f.illi' '■ ■ i: -^lone, was born in Le.\- 



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MHVIN I 

inj^'ion. M.issachnseii .lul served li\< 

ye.irs in the Revolution, (in ilu iiliirn '1 

settled in llosiawin willi miK luiiil\ :li 

which to lie;;in I land 



enou^'h to ;;■ 



•t Ills ei^lil 1 liiUlicii .1 lionu' 



38 



MKX OF PROGRESS. 



stead. Miuy .Vnn 'I'icknor was a sister of William 
I). Ticknor of the linn of Ticknor & Fields, pub- 
lishers, of Hoston. Dr. Stone was educated in the 
common and private schools of his native town and 
at the New Hampton Literary Institute, graduating 
from the Commercial Department in 1873. He 
then worked upon the farm until 1876, when he 
commenced the study of medicine with Dr. F. A. 
Stillings of Concord, New Hampshire. He was 
graduated from Dartmouth .Medical College in Nov- 
ember, 1879. In February, 1880, he went to Troy 
and entered upon the practice of his profession as 
successor to Dr. li. F. Harriman. where he has 
remained ever since, being the only physician in the 
town. He was appointed Superintending School 
Committee in the years i882-"85,was a member and 
Chairman of the School Hoard in 1886, and was 
again chosen a member in i89o-'92. In 1887, 
he was elected a Representative, and ser\ed upon 
several committees. He was chosen Town Clerk in 
1888, and has held the office until the present time. 
He was a trustee of the Public Library in 1894 and 
again in 1897. In 1896. he was elected one of the 
Supervisors of the Check List, has been Health 
Officer and member of the Board of Health for sev- 
eral years, and a Justice of the Peace since 1885. 
He was a member of the Board of Pension E.xamin- 
ing Surgeons at Keene during President Harrison's 
Administration. Dr. Stone is the author of a His- 
tory of Trov, published in 1897. and is also one of 
the Trustees of the Fitzwilliam Savings Bank. He 
is a member of Monadnock Lodge No. 88, Free 
and Accepted Masons, of Troy, and was Worshipful 
.Master for three years, 1886 and 1888, is a member 
of Cheshire Chapter. Royal Arch Masons and Hugh 
de Payen Connnandery Knights Templar of Keene. 
He is also a member of the New Hampshire, the 
Cheshire County, and the Connecticut River Valley 
Medical societies, having been President of the last 
two, and the present Council of the New Hampshire 
Medical Society. In politics he has always been a 
Republican. Dr. Stone was married January 26. 
18S2, to Cora M.. daughter of Charles W. Whitney. 
Of their three children only one is living : Mildred 
Ticknor Stone, born .March 17. 1SS9. 



I'niversitv, and was graduated with the class of 



.87: 



He studied law in Concord with Sargent & 



W.M.Kl'.K. Kkuhen Eugene, Lawyer, Concord. 
was born in Lowell. Massachusetts, February 15. 
1 85 1, son of Abiel and .Mary (Powers) Walker. He 
was educated at the district school in Warner, New 
Hampshire, and at the Colby Academy, New Lon- 
don. New Hampshire. Later he entered Brown 



Chase, and since his admission to the Bar in 1878, 
has been in active and successful practice there. 
He is a member of the firm of Streeter, Walker iV 




REUBEN E. W.M.KER. 

HoUis. 1-roni 1889 to [891. he was Solicitor for 
Merrimack county. He represented the Sixth 
Ward of Concord in the Legislature of 1895. In 
politics he is a Republican, (^n June 18, 1875, 
.Mr. \\alker was married to Mary E. I^rown. They 
have one daughter : Hertha May \\alker. 



\\ KFKS. Fr.ank, Lawyer, Centerville, was born 
in Wakefield, Carroll county. New Hampshire, 
August 31. i85r, son of Algernon Sidney and 
Sarah Jane (Rogers) Weeks. In the paternal line 
he is of the seventh generation from Leonard 
Weeks, son of John and .\nne \\'yke of Moreton. 
Somerset County, England, born in 1639, ''^"'' '"^'^ 
emigrant to .America. Leonard Weeks in i66o-'6i 
was living at Wiiinicul River, in Greenland, New 
Hampshire. John Weeks, his great-grandson, was 
one of the first settlers of Wakefield, in 1772. On 
the ]naternal side, Frank Weeks is descended from 
John Rogers of Jackson. His early education was 
obtained in the common schools of Wakefield and 
the Wakefield Academy. In 1867 he began teach- 
ing, but in 1S70 took up the study of medicine with 



MEN Ol 



ROGRKSS. 



39 



Dr. George \\. Tebbetts of ( )ssipee. A few months 
later he began reading law in the office of Sanborn 
B. Carter of ( )ssipee. Subseciuently he studied 
with Golonel S. D. Quarles of the same town, and 
later with L. D. Sawyer of Wakefield. In 1873 he 
was appointed an Inspector of Gustoms at lioston. 
He was in the service until April. 1875, devoting 
his spare time to legal studies in the offices of May- 
narcl >.\; Hills, and Frank H. Hills. Admitted to 
the New Hampshire liar October 22. 1875, at Ossi- 
pee, he began practice in that town, where he has 
since remained. His legal business has been lucra- 
tive, e.xtensive, and varied, yet he has also engaged 
to a considerable extent in dealings in real estate. 




some time in the earlier days of his legal practice, 
and is now one of the Auditors of Garroll county, 
Init lie has declined a number of nominations, 
among tliem that for County Solicitor. In politics 
lie is a Republican. He married August i. 1S83, 
Mary Isabel, daughter of Joseph ( Uiarles and Mary 
Elizabeth Roles of Ossipee, 



WINSLOW, SHKRiaiRN J.. Rank Treasurer and 
Manufacturer, Pittsfield, was born March 16, 1834, 
at Nottingham, New Hampshire, son of Josiah 
and Ruth (Tucker) W'inslow, Roth his paternal 
srandfather and sirandmother were said to be 
direct descendants of Edward W'inslow df the 
Mayflower Colony. His maternal grandfather, 
James Tucker, was a farmer of Pittsfield and was 
born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1776. Mr. 
W'inslow was educated in the common schools of 
his native place and later at the academies of Pitts- 
held, Pembroke, and New London. From 1853 to 
i860, his summers were spent upon a farm and the 
rest of the year he taught school, at which occupa- 
tion he was very successful. From i860 until 1878 



1 K.\NK WkEKS. 

He owns several thousand acres of land in ( )ssipee 
and other towns, as well as handsome holdings of 
town property in his own neighborhood and Massa- 
chusetts. His homestead of one hundred and sev- 
entv-five acres affords opportunity for indulgence of 
his liking for agricultural pursuits. He is a lover 
of out-of-door life, and at W'eeks's Park on tlie shore 
of Ossipee Lake, on a tract which was the strong- ^^ j^ winsi.ow. 

hold of the Ossipee Indians, and what still shows 

traces of their burial ground and a frnt built as a he engaged in farming and general business. He 
protection against the raids of the Mohawks, he then fclluwecl nianulacluring and dealing in lumber 
has erected a delightful summer home. .Mr. Weeks until within foiu or live years, wlien other interests 
has not sought office. He was a member of the have taken Ins attention to such a degree as to 
superintending school committee of Ossipee for compel liini to withdraw gradually from his busi- 




40 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ness. lie luid charge of the construction of the 
water works for Merrimack county as well as for 
the towns of Tilton and Pittsfield, and was Super- 
intendent of the Pittsfield Water Works for about 
ten years, being one of the principal owners, and at 
present, one of the Directors of the company. He 
has also been, ever since its organization, a large 
owner and a Director of the Gas company in the 
same place. For the past four years he has been 
interested in the management of the Exeter Manu- 
facturing Company, is a stockholder and Director, 
and is now and has been for the last three years Treas- 
urer of the company. In the fall of 1897, he was 
elected Treasurer of the Pittsfield Savings Bank, 
with which he had been connected as Auditor. 
member of Investing Committee and of the Board 
of 'trustees for seventeen years. This position 
he now holds. He is also a large owner of real 
estate in his own and adjoining towns. For more 
than forty vears he has almost constantly had 
the charge of the .settlement of estates and the 
management of trust funds. Mr. Winslow never 
sought political office, but has been and now is a 
member of the School Board, He is a Free ^[ason 
and a niemlier of the Epi.scopal Church, having been 
Treasurer and Warden of the society for years. He 
is a Republican in politics. On March 19, i860, 
he married .Margaret Denison. They have two 
children : Cora, wife of James L. Hook, and Xellie, 
wife of Dr. F. H. Sargent. 



He was two years at Genesee College of New 
York, one year in the Medical Department of the 
University of the City of New York, and for two 
years in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
the Medical Department of the Columbia Cniver- 



ADAMS, Daniel Simmons, Physician and Sur- 
geon, Manchester, was born in Lockport, Niagara 
county. New York, May 3, 1846, son of David and 
Adelia Maria (Griff.s) Adams. In the paternal line, 
Dr, Adams traces his descent from David Adams, 
born October 19, 1797, in Londonderry, New 
Hampshire, and died January 9, 1S68, in Lockport, 
New York; James, bom May 5, 1765, married 
Anna Griffin and lived in Londonderry; Edmund, 
born October 24. 1740, a resident of London- 
derry, married Hannah Thurston; Richard, born 
November 22, 1639, married Susannah Pike, and 
lived in Newbury, Massachusetts ; Abraham, born 
in 1639, resident of Newbury, Massachusetts, 
married Mary Pettengill ; Robert Adams, born in 
1601, and also a resident of Newbur\-. The 
family is descended from Jolin .\. Adams. Baron 
of Somersetshire, England. 1 )aniel S, Adams 
attended the district schools at Lockport, New 
York, and the Cnion School in that town, and 
Pinkerton .\rademv of Derrv. New Hampshire. 




D.ANIEL S. ,\D.AMS. 

sity of New \'urk. from which lie was graduated 
with the degree of M. D. February 28, 1872. He 
was for a year in the New York Hospital, ending 
his term of .service there in the fall of 1872. In 
September of that j^ear he began his practice in 
Manchester, where he has since remained. He was 
Treasurer of the New Hampshire Medical Societ)' 
from 1881 to 1 89 1 ; President of the Board of Cen- 
sors of the New Hampshire ^Nfedical Society from 

1886 to date; a delegate to the International Medi- 
cal Congress at Washington, District of Columbia, 

1887 ; Associate Supreme Medical E.vaminer of 
Royal Templars of Temperance Insurance Order, 
headquarters at Buffalo, New York ; Surgeon to 
Elliott Hospital, Manchester, New Hampshire; Con- 
sulting Surgeon to Children's Home, Manchester, 
New Hampshire. He is a member of the New 
Hampshire Medical Society, of the .Vmerican Med- 
ical Association, of the International Medical Con- 
gress. He is a member of the First Congrega- 
tional Church. He is a Mason, Knights Templar, 
and Thirty-.second degree. He has always been a 
Republican. Dr. .\dams married, November 17, 



MKN OF PROCtRKSS. 



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1870, Cora Anna, ilauyhtcr of Andrew and 
Margaret A. Vox of Auburn. New Hampsliire. 
Mrs. Adams died l-'ehruary 22, 1898, after an 
illiies.s of eii;ht months. 

BEAN, Ai.i'REii l''i,MKR. I'ostmaster of llerlin, 
was born in I )umnier. New Hampshire, July 20, 
1864, son of ( 'aleb Fuller and Tirzah (Lang) Bean. 
His parents were natives of Maine, being descen- 
dants of the early settlers of that state. His father 
came to New Hampshire as a young man and en- 
gaged in the lumber Ijusiness, settling fust in Mum- 
mer and afterward removing to Milan. The sub- 
ject of this sketch becoming discontented with the 
quiet farm life, at the age of fourteen, bought his 
time and faced the world for himself. For the ne.xt 
seven years, he was emploved as driver of a team 
for l)aniel Webster Hodgdon, lumber niercliant. 
During the summer he worked on a f.irni. In the 
fall of 1885, he went to Berlin with tlie determina- 
tion of securing an education. While li\ing in the 
home of Dr. H. F. Wardwell working for his board, 
he attended the Berlin High school. In the spring 



ha\e three daughters : Elizabeth Wardwell, Dorothy, 
and Mai;;aret Wilson Bean, 




of 1888, he entered the employ of the Berlin Mills 
Company, and held his position until he was ap- 
pointed I'oslmaster of llerlin, ( )(tober 1, 18(^7. In 
politics, Mr. Bean is a Republiran. lie ni.irried 
September 2, i8(jo. Fannie A. Wai dwell. They 



Id, AIR, IlKNkN William, Fx-United Slates Sen- 
ator from New Hampshire, was born Decembers, 
1834, at Campton, New Hampshire. His father 
was a man of unusual abilities, an excellent scholar, 
a talente(.l nuisi( ian, .nul a reco;;nized leader in the 
town. ( )n the matcinal side he was descended 
fidm the bakers of ('andia, a famih' noted in 
Colonial and Re\olutionar\- times. The lUair sto( k 
is ,Scot( h-Iiisli, and m.ni\' of the members of the 
taniih' were prominent in the old .Scotch-Irish 
Colony in Londonderry Henrv William lllair's 
father ilied when the lii]\ was two years of age. 
His widow was left in stiailetietl ciri umstances, 
and when the youngest son, llemw was si.\ years 
of age, she arranged with .Samuel Keiuiiston, a 
leading resident of ('ampton, to take him for a 
year, while slie went to I,owell, in ipiest of work in 
the factories theie, b\ which she might secure the 
means to su|)|.iort and educate her children. This 
venture of hers was not successful, and in the sum- 
mer of 1842 she returned to ('ampton, hut soon 
went with her children to I'lvmouth, where for the 
next year she sup|)ortetl them In' sewing, Richard 
ISartlett, one of the prosperous farmers of Camp- 
ton, was attracted liv the boy Henr)- and offered to 
gi\e him a home in return for such services as he 
could render. So in May, 1843, the lad started 
out to begin to earn his own living, and for se\eral 
years his home was with Mr. Bartlett. In 1846 
Mrs. ISIair died, and from that time on her son 
fought the battle of life, aided only by such friends 
as he made for himself. Until he was seventeen 
he worked upon the farm in sununer and attended 
the district school in winter. Li the autunms of 
1851 and 1852. he was a pupil of Holmes Acad- 
emy at Plymouth, then under the control of Rev. 
lames H. Shepard, and in 1853 attended the New 
Hampshire Conference Seminary for one teiiin Ik- 
worked for a mechanic for one yeai\ and was 
expecting to resume his studies, when his emplo\t'r 
failed and he lost his wages. liefore he (luild 
secure another situation he was prostrated with an 
illness, which left him liroken in health and com- 
pelled him aftei- a long struggle to gi\'e up his hope 
of a collegiate training, I'or three \ears he worked 
farms and taught schools in New Hampshire 
lid Massachusetts, sold books and did whatever 
vork his health would allow. May 1, iS^fi, he 
I'utered the ofhee of Willi. ini Lexeictt of ri\nioulh 



on 
an 



p 



MF.N" OF I'ROCRF.SS. 



as a law .student, and three years later was admitted 
to the ]5ar. He began the practice of his profes- 
sion, as junior partner in the tirni of Feverett iV 
Hlair, and devoted himself to his labors with indus- 
try and ability. In a year he was appointed Solici- 
tor of (uafton county. When the war broke out he 
endeavored to enlist in the Fifth and afterwards 
in the 'Fwelfth Regiments New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, l)ut failed to pass the Surgeon's examination. 
However, he succeeded in enlisting in the Fifteenth 
Regiment as pri\ate and was chosen C'aptain of 
C'ompany 1!. He was commissioned Major by 
(iovernor Berry. The Fifteenth went to Louisiana, 
where, soon after its arrival, the disability of the 




HENRY W. I>,L.\IR. 

superior officers, left Major Hlair in command of 
the regiment which became known as •• The Fight- 
ing Nine Months' Men." In the assault upon Port 
Hudson, he was severely wounded in the right arm. 
and was carried to the hospital, but when he learned 
a few days later tliat another attack was to be made, 
he insisted on disregarding the commands of the 
Surgeon, rejoined his connnand, and led the men. 
Here he was again wouiulid in the same arm by 
a bullet which tore open the old wound, but he 
remained with his men until he led them from the 
lield. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 
shortly before the siege of Port Fludson com- 
menced, and brought iionie his regiment when his 



term expired. His health was most precarious 
when he returned to New Hampshire and so con- 
tinued for six or seven years, but careful nursing 
gradually restored it. He resumed the practice of 
law at Plymouth, for several years having an office 
alone, but in 1875 he formed a partnershi]5 with 
Alvin Burleigh, Esq,, which continued until his 
first election to the National Senate. He was a 
member of the I^egislnture in 1866, and in the 
next year was promoted to the State Senate, He 
was elected to Congress in March, 1875, and was 
re-elected in 1877, but declined a re-nomination two 
years later. In the summer of 1879, he was a can- 
didate for the United Stales Senate and was strongly 
supported by the younger men of his party, by the 
temperance and .soldier elements, and with their 
aid he was successful. In the House of Kepre- 
sentatives he had served upon tlie connnittees upon 
Pacific Railroads and Accounts and several special 
committees. In the Senate of the F'orty-sixth Con- 
gress he served u|5on the connnittees of Fducation, 
Labor, Agriculture, 'I'ransportation, Routes to the 
Seaboard, Flection Frauds, Pensions, and Exodus 
of the Colored People. In the succeeding Con- 
gress he was Chairman of the Senate Committee 
on Education and I-abor, and a member of those 
on Pensions. Public Lands, Agriculture, and 
Woman Suffrage. He was re-elected to the Senate 
in 1S85. Mr. Blair is the author of several impor- 
tant measures, and in his speeches has discussed 
the financial, tariff and other leading questions 
pending during his public life. He was a vig- 
orous advocate of Woman's Suffrage, of indus- 
trial, pension, and temperance legislation and of 
national aid to the common schools of the 
South, Senator Klair was defeated for a third 
term, after which he was appointed Minister to 
China, hut was rejected by the imperial government 
on account of his active opposition to Chinese 
immigration to this countr)-. In 1892, he was 
elected to Congress from the F'irst New Hampshire 
District. In 1895, he retired to private life. His 
home is in Manchester, and he cle\otes him- 
self to literarv work and the practice of the law, a 
part of the time in Washington, District of Col- 
umbia. He married Eliza Nelson, daughter of a 
.Methodist clergyman of Crafton county. They 
have one son, Henrv Patterson IMair. 



l!.\RrLFir, FuKMoNi- DAvroN, Superin- 
tendent of the Berlin Mills, was Iwirii in Bethel, 
Maine, April 30, 1S56, son of Elias ,S. and Hester 



MKN Ol' l'kO(;RE.SS. 



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A. (liartlett) Bartlett. He numbers amonj;- his 
ancestors the Bartletts of t'olcmial anti Re\(ihi- 
tionar_v fame; his great-grandfather, Josiah liartlett. 
was one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. He recei\ed his education in tlie com- 
mon schoiils and at dould Academ_\' in his native 
tciwn. In 1874 he obtained a position as marker 
in the lierlin Mills (.'ompan\', and when not em- 
ployed as such, attended school in the tall and 
Sluing, and taught in the winter. I'>\- strict atten- 
tion to the duties of his position and li\' means of 
the unusual executi\e abilitw al\\a\s a prominent 
characteristic of Mr. liartlett. he rose by rapid 
steps from marker to sur\-eyor, from surveyoi' to 




iRioMuM' n. r.Akrri.rr. 

yard-foreman, and linally to the import, mt position 
of Superintendent of the great plant. lie is a 
Director and \'ice-President of the llerlin building 
and Loan Association. He was Selectman of 
berlin for two terms, during one of which he 
served as Chairman; w;is 'r;i.\ ('olleitor one \ear. 
;ind in i.SS:^ was made a member of the l!o,ird of 
Ktluc;ition. serving in this capacity for eleven 
years. During this lime there have been many 
improvements made and :ulv;uued steps t;d<en in 
the dissemination of connnon school education, and 
much of the excellence of the present system is due 
to Mr. Hartlett's individu:d efforts. He has been a 
pioneer in this work, and one whose efforts havt- 



been most successfid. He received the appoint- 
ment of Justice of the Police Court. June 24. 1S94. 
from Covernor .Smith, but resigned upon his pro- 
motion to his present position. He is a member of 
Mt. Abram Lodge No. 7,1. Independent ( )rder of 
( )dd Fellows, liethel. Maine; a Last Chancellor 
( 'ommander of Coos Lodge No. 25, Knights of 
I'ythias. I'.eilin ; Last Master of Sabatus Lodge, 
No. 9 c;, Ancient Free and Acce|ited Masons, 
llerlin; and a member of North St.ir Chapter and 
( 'onnnanderv' of Lancaster, and h.is always taken 
an active interest in all the affairs of these orders. 
In politics, ,\Tr. liartlett is a Republican. Mr. 
liartlett was mairied .September 12. iSSo.to \'ell 
M. lirovvn. 'I'hev have three children ; Leon 
( )scar. Harry LIharam. and Nellie F.\elyn liartlett. 



BOND, Oeorce SUiMNKR, Manufacturer of Musi- 
cal Instrument Cases and Ranker, Charlestovvn, 
was born in that place, March j, 1857, son of Silas 
and Alice (Abbott) liond. He is of English de- 
scent, his great-grandfather having migrated from 
England and settled in \\';itertovvn, Massachusetts, 
where his son. William liond. grandfather of the 
subject of this sketch, was the lirst representa- 
tive of the family name born in this country. Wil- 
liam ISond inhaled with his hi'st lireath patriotism 
and love of comitrv and at the age of eighteen 
enleretl the army of the Lev ulution. He was at 
the hrst bloodshed at Lexington, and participated 
in the Battle of Bunker Hill, stories of which 
stormy period in the history of the country he 
lived to recount to his children's children, prior to 
his death at the honored age of ninety-four. The 
record of the family of (jeorge Svunner liond in 
Charlestovvn. New Hampshire, dates from 1765, 
and its various members have since resided there in 
the near neighborhood of the first settlement. The 
early education of (ieorge S, Bond was obtained in 
the common schools of Charlestovvn, but from boy- 
hood he has been gifted with a taste for literary 
pursuits, and has lieen a constant student and 
close observer of men as well as of books. LIpon 
attaining his majority, he served an apprenticeship 
of two years in acquiring the trade of tinsmith, 
and in 1861 engaged in that business in tin' town 
of I'utney. \'erniont. In three v'ears he returned 
tf) Charlestovvn, and puich;ised the business of his 
former employer, carrying it on successfully for 
seventeen years, and giving it upto;u'cept the posi- 
tion of Superintendent of the I'argeti/ed C;in Com- 
p.mv . then est;d)lishing its business in his native 



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MEN OI' PROCRKSS. 



town. After a year he resigned tlie position, again jjresent excellent standing of the institution, in 
to engage in business for himself, buying a plant spite of its having encountered one of the most 
for the manufacture of musical instrument cases, trying tinancial periods of the century, being cred- 
which hail bec-n unsuccessful under previous man- ited largely to his integrity, firmness, and sound 
agement, but into which he infused new life, build- common sense. His fine executive and adminis- 
trative ability won due recognition from the Ameri- 
can Bankers' Association in his election as Vice- 
President of the Association for New Hampshire 
at the annual meeting of that body in .St. Louis in 
1S96, followed by his re-election at the Detroit 
meeting of the council the following year. Mr. 
liond is a Mason, and for eight years served as 
Master of I'aithful Lodge, Free and .Accepted 
Masons, No. u. in Charlestown. He married 
October 9, i860, Mary A., only daughter of the 
late Warren and Mary A. (Osgood) Way. Their 
only son. Herbert Warren, is Cashier of the Con- 
necticut River National Hank of Charlestown. 




BOND, HKRr.KRT W.arrex, lianker, Charle.s- 
town, was born in that town July 30, 1861, son of 
C.oorge ,Sunuier and Mary Maria (Way) Bond, 
He is descended from the Bond faniilv of Water- 



(IKORllE S. HOND, 

ing it up steadih' to its present Hue proportions as 
the largest manufactvuing establishment of its kind 
in the world. .Mr. Bond has not allowed himself to 
become absorbed in his business successes to the 
exclusion of everything else, and his influence has 
been felt in many efforts for public advancement. 
He has given much attention to schools, and has 
served on the Board of Education, and as a Trustee 
of the .Silsby Free Library since its opening. He 
is liberal in thought, jniblic spirited and an earnest 
advocate of progress along educational, social, and 
political lines, hi politics, Mr. Bond is an active 
Republican and has been a hard worker for his 
party and inlluenlial in its councils. He was a 
member of the State Constitutional Convention in 
i88g, and .served with distinction on several of its 
important committees. In 1876, he became inter- 
ested in banking as one of the Board of Trustees 
and member of the Finance Committee of the Con- 
necticut River Savings Bank; in i8gi, he was 
chosen a Director of the Connecticut River Na- 
tional i5ank, and in 1896 was elected President, 
which responsible position he now holds, the 



r 



•I? ^ 




IlKRl'.lKl « . r.ONT). 

town, Massachusetts, being in the sixth generation 
of the familv. On the maternal side he traces his 
descent from the Ways of Newport, New Hamp- 
shire, who were among the early settlers of that 
town. He attended the \'ermont Episcopal Insti- 



MKN Ol' I'ROCRKSS. 



45 



tute at Ijuiiiiigton, beinj^- i,n-adu;U(.'d in iS8o. and liar. April 27, 186S. P'rom [S70IC1 1878 he prac- 



two years later l)ecanie a clerk in the Connecticut 
River Natir>nal Hank of ( 'harlestown. He was 
promoted to Assistant Cashier in 1893. ■^'^'' ''^ 
i8q5 was made Cashier, which position he now 
holds. Since 1S85 he has been Town Clerk. He 
is Treasure!' of the I )iocese of New llanipshire. a 
Notar\- I'ulilic and Justice of the Peace. Mr. 
llonil is a member of the Lambs' Club of New 
\'ork city; of Faithful Lodne. No. 1.;. Ancient 
Free and Accepted Masons, Charlestown, lieinu; 
Junior U'arden from i896-'g7; of Webb Chapter 
No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, Claremont ; Colmnbian 
Council Royal and .Select Masters, and Sullivan 
Commandery, both at Claremont; F. A, Ray- 
mond Consistory, 'I'hirty-second deL;"ree of Masonry. 
Nashua, as well as Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic 
Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of lioston. He 
married, Februar\- 17, 1892, .Susie R. I )ickinson. 



BURNIL\M, Henry Fp.kn. Ivx-J ud,i;e of Pro- 
bate, Manchester, was born in I »unbarton. New 
Hampshire, November 8, 1844. son of Henrv F. 
and AFiria A. (Railey) ISinnliam. ( )n the paternal 
side he is of l'aii,dish stock, beiny; descended in 
the eighth generation from John Rurnham, who 
emigrated from Fngland in 1635, and settled in 
Chebacco (Ipswich), iShtssachusetts. There Sam- 
uel Burnham, great-grandfather of the subject of 
this sketch, was born, who removed to Dimbartcju 
in 1770. Jiradford. son of .Samuel, was born in 
Dunbarton in 1787, and died there in 1865; and 
there, too, his son, Henry F., was born in 1814, 
Judge liurnham's ancestors in the direct line were 
farmers, but among his collateral kindred are 
found the Rev. Abraham llurnham of Pembroke, 
and the Rev. Amos llurnham of Rindge; and he 
is related on his father's side to Nathan Dane, a 
delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787, and 
the author of the famous ordinance of that date, 
for the government of the \ast territory north and 
west of the Ohio, which contained the provision 
" that there shall be neither slaver)- nor involun- 
tary servitude in the said territory." llenr\- F. 
llurnham attended the common schools and High 
School of Hunbtirlon, Kimball Fnion Academy at 
Meriden, and Dartmouth College, from which he 
was graduated in 1863. He studied law at M:in- 
chester in the office of Fdw;ud S. Cutter and the 
Hon. Fewis W. Clark and in ('oncord in the ofifice 
of Minot iV Mugridge. He was admitted to the 



ticed law in Manchester, as a partner of 
D.u id Cross, under the firm name of 
l!urnh:ini. lie was a partner of Ceorge 
lister, friim April i. 1 88 1 , to |;inuar\' 



the Hon. 
Cross iv 
1. McAl- 
I, 1884, 




HKNRV v.. nUKNH.\.M. 

muler the firm name of ISurnham \- McAllister. 
In Septemlier, 1884, with /Mbert ( >. Ilrowii. he 
formed the law tirm of llurnham \: llmwu. to 
which C.eorge H. Warren was admitted in Septem- 
ber, 1890. This linn is now in piactice undei- the 
name of llurnham, Ihown \' Warren. Mr. llurn- 
ham was a member of the New Hamjashire House 
of Reijresentatives in 1873- '74, and of the State 
Constitutional Coinention of i88(). He h.is been 
ballot Faw Connnissioner since i8():;; Treasurer of 
Hillsborough county in 187^ '77; ludge of Pro- 
bate of Hillsborough count\ from |li1\' :?:^. ]87fj, 
until his resignati<in in June. 1871); (■h;uini,ni of 
the Re|niblic:in State (onvenlion to nominate dele- 
gates to the NatioiKd Con\enti(jn in 1888; Major, 
(ommanding the .Amoskeag Veterans. i89_' '94. 
He lias been Noble (Irand "f Wiklev Fodge. and 
Chief Patriarch of Mount Washington iMuanip- 
ment. Independent ( )rder of ( )il(l Fellows. He 
was Worshipful Master of W.ishington Fodge, 
.Ancient l''ree and .\ciepteil M;isons, in 1876 and 
1877; M<ist Worshipfid (irand Master of Masons 
in New Hampshire in 1S85 ; and has reiei\ed the 



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MEN OF I>R()(;RKSS. 



Thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonr_\'. 
He is a member of tlie Derrytield C'lul). I'rom 
his college clays Judge Hurnhani has been noted 
among his fellows as an orator of rare power and 
charm. At his graduation he was selected to dis- 
cuss in public debate, the Monroe Doctrine, with 
Horace Russell, since a Judge of the courts of 
New York; and in later days he has delivered 
many addresses of note, among them the oration 
at the dedication of Masonii Hall in Manchester, 
October 15, 1890; a stirring address on Bunker 
Hill day, as Commandei' of the Amoskeag Vet- 
erans, at the banquet gi\ en b\ the Worcester Con- 
tinentals to the Veterans and the I'utnam Phalanx, 
and the eloquent oration at the .Semi-Centennial 
in Manchester, September iS. 1896. As an advo- 
cate before a jury he has but few equals, and from 
its beginning his practice has been large and lucra- 
tive. In politics he. has always been a Republican. 
Judge Ituinham married, October 22, 1874, Eliza- 
beth II. r.itlersdn. His children are: Gertrude 
Elizabeth. .\lic:e l\Ulerson, and l'',dith Duncan 
llurnham. 



CHAM BERLIN. Roiikrt N., Lawyer, Berlin, 
was born in Bangor, New York, July 24. 1856, 
son of Antoine and Electa B. (Sears) Chamber- 
lin. His grandfather, Francois Chamberlin, born 
near Paris, France, came to Canada, where he 
was in the British service as a mariner in the 
War of 1812. His son, Antoine. who was born in 
Nicollet, Province of Quebec, and followed his 
trade of shoemaker in Sherbrooke. Pr<nince of 
Quebec, Ahilone and liangor, Franklin county. 
New York, settled in West Stewartstown. New 
I lampshire. in 1859. In this town, the subject of 
this sketch attended the public schools a few weeks 
each year, most of his time from his eighth to six- 
teenth year being devoted to the task of self sup- 
port. Later he attended the academies at Cole- 
brook and Derby, Vermont. In i877-'78 he read 
law with (1. W. Hartshorn of Canaan. \'ermont ; 
was admitted to the Bar in \'ernicint. .Nhuch, 1881, 
and formed a partnership with Mr. Hartshorn, 
which continued for two years. In July, 188 1, he 
moved to Berlin, and in March, 1883, was admitted 
to the New Hampshire Uar, and being the first 
lawyer to settle in the town of iierlin which was 
then developing rapidlv. Mr. Chamberlin is a 
lawyer of great ability and has taken a prominent 
place in the profession in the state. He has served 
as Superintendent of Schools, as Selectman, and as 



a member of the P.oard of Education. He is active 
in the Masonic order. In 1889, he was a member 
of the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1892, 
and chosen Speaker of the House. During both 
of his terms, he made a brilliant record. In poli- 




kllhl'.RT N. CH.AMIiERl.lN. 



tics Mr. Chamberlin is a strong Republican. He 
married November 2, 1882, Maria H., daughter of 
Ira and Ann J. (Howard) Mason of Berlin. They 
have one son : Lafavette Rav Chamberlin. 



CO{;SWELL, John Ross, Physician. Warner, was 
l)orn at Landalf, New Hampshire. .April 18, 1840, 
son of George W. and Harriet (Taylor) Cogswell. 
( )n the paternal side he is descended in the eighth 
generation from Sir John Cogswell, who came from 
England in 1635 and settled in Essex, Massachu- 
setts. His great-grandfather, John Cogswell, was 
one of eight brothers who served in the Re\-olu- 
tionary \\'ar. It is worthy of note that the eight 
together gave thirty-eight years to the service of 
Iheir country in this war, which is said to be the 
longest period to the credit of any one family in 
the United States. Timothy Taylor, the maternal 
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one 
of the first settlers of Lisbon, and his wife .vas a 
member of the well-known Lo\ell family of Wor- 
cester, Massachusetts. John R. Cogswell attended 
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graduatL-d fnnn the New Ilaniptdn Literary Insti- 
tution in 1.S59. He studied one 3'ear in college, 
but poor health, resulting from over study, forced 
him to give up the rest of his collegiate course. 
For two years he taught in high schools and acad- 
emies in New Hampshire and \'ermont, and then 
began the studv of medicine in 1S61. being gradu- 
ated from Dartmouth in 1864. He practiced medi- 
cine and surgery for five years at Franconia. and 
then took a post-graduate course at Harvard Medi- 
cal .School. He then returned to Franconia and 
practiced five years, or until November, 1S74, when 
he removed to Warner, where he has been in active 
practice until the present time. In all he has seen 
over thirty-three years of active country practice in 
towns where his professional tails lia\e frequentU' 
involved long and tedious journeys. Dr. (.'ogswell 
figures it out that he drives from five to eight thou- 
sand miles yearly. It is his belief, howe\er. that 
in spite of this apparent hardship, the coimtry phy- 
sician's life has its compensations in the s]5lendid 
air, and magnificent scenery, and in the ile\elop- 
ment of self-reliance to a greater degree than some- 
times is the case with the citv practitioner. He 
often has to be druggist as well as physician, and 
thus gains added knowledge and strength. Dr. 
Cogswell's e.xperience has been large, but he has 
devoted especial attention to the treatment of dis- 
eases of women and children, and has won a high 
reputation for his success in the treatment of pneu- 
monia. He ranks high among his professional 
brethren for integrity and professional court- 
esy, and for the most careful avoidance of 
cpiestional)le practices. He served as .Selectman 
of F'ranconia for two years and was Collector of 
Taxes in i''~>73; Superintendent of Schools for 
three years ; Town Superintendent of .Schools in 
Warner from 1880 to 1883 ; Superintending Com- 
mittee of Simonds Free High School in Warner in 
i896-'99. He has been one of tlie 'J'rustees of the 
Pillsbury l''ree Library; Secretary of the White 
Mountain Medical Society ; I'resident of the Centre 
District Medical Society; and has been honored 
with elections as delegate to the American Medical 
Association and \'ei'mont .State Medical .Society, 
He is a Democrat in politics, and in 1894 '9(1 
received the party nomination for State .Senator, but 
failed of election, the district being strongly Repub- 
lican. Dr. Cogswell li;is In-en a Mason for over 
thirty-ffjur years and now belongs to H;irris Lodge 
of Warner. Franklin ("hapter, Lisbon, and .St, 
(;er;ird Connnandery, Knights Tem|)lar, Littleton. 



He has l)een Master of H.irris Lodge, representa- 
tive to the Crand Lodge, etc., etc. He joined the 
Odd Fellows some over twent\' years ago, has 
received all the honors of the Order, and- is now 
a memljer of Central Lodge, No. 67, Warner, and 
Welcome Rebekah Lodge, No. 18. He has been 
a member of Warner (irange twent\' vears, has 
held various otilices in it. and is at present its 
Worthy Master. He has been (naiige Director for 
the State Orange Fair at 'I'ilton. and I'resident and 
Secretary of the Merrimack County Orange Fair 
at Warner. For several years he was Director in 
the Merrimack (;lo\e Companv at Warner, lie- 
sides his professional work he has de\'Oted some 
time to dealings in real estate and building of 
houses and shoiis, and has been foremost in any 
enterprise in the town in which he lived. He is a 
strictlv temperate man, never indulging in the use 
of liijuor, toliacco, coftee, or profanity. He has 
held the highest offices in the Sons of Temperance, 
Oood Templars, and Lhiited Order of the (jolden 
Cross. Dr. Cogswell is a ready writer and a poet 
of considerable local reputation, having alwavs 







JOHN U. ( OCSWKI.I,. 

l)een ( .illed upon to luruish a iKiem for ,dl impor- 
tant local exents, anniversaries, silver weddings, 
(jrange and iNLisonic celebrations and the like. His 
ready wit :uul ability for extemporaneous speech 
ha\'e c;uise(l him to be c;illed the "poet and orator " 



4S 



MEN Ol- PROGRESS. 



of his tdwn. He is ;i rrj^ular attcndiiiit at church 
and for ten years was a member of llie choir. He 
is a believer in the Fatherhood of (".od and the 
lirotlierliood of Man. antl that a man's works h\e 
after him ; that one should live not for the present 
alone, but that his influence may fjo on doinj; good 
after he has gone from eartli and eartlily things. 
Dr. Cogswell married June 9, 1867, Mary Ella 
Knight, of Franconia, who died September 14, 
1869, leaving one son, l''.dward K. Cogswell, born 
August 30, 1869. Dr. Cogswell married Septem- 
ber 18, 1872, Catherine Ellen Hildreth of Lisbon, 
by whom he had one son. I.loyd Hildreth Cogswell, 
born December 7, rS79. ^1'*- L'og.swell has long 
been a memljer of the Rebekah Lodge, was chosen 
Noble drand early in its history; has been an 
active member of the Woman's Christian Temper- 
ance Union, and Cnited Order of the Golden 
Cross, and is a member of the Congregational 
church in Warner. Edward K. Cogswell is now a 
successful merchant of Hcnniker. He married 
Carrie E. Folsom, only daughter of W'm. O. Fol- 
som, a ]3rominent citizen of llenniker. Lloyd Hil- 
dreth Cogswell is studying medicine at Dellevue 
Hospital Medical College, New \ork city: has 
successfully passed his examinations for the first 
vear, and takes a high rank in his studies. Both 
sons, E. K. and L. H., are graduates of Simonds 
Free High School, Warner, and each took post 
graduate studies. I'.oth are members of the 
Grange, and E. K., being of sufficient age, has be- 
come a member of the Knights of Pythias and the 
Free and Accepted Masons. He and his wife are 
doing some literary work, at pre.sent being local 
editors of the Henniker Courier. Dr. Cogswell is, 
and well may be. proud of his family, both as to 
their intellectual ability and moral and social stand- 
ing. 



COI^BY, F"Ria)?;RicK Myron, Journalist and 
Author, Warner, was born in that town, December 
9, 1848, son of Levi Osgood Colb\- and Mary ( Din- 
rell) Colby. He is descended from Thomas Colby, 
fourth son of .\nthony Colby, the progenitor of all 
the Colbys of .\merica and himself a descendant 
of Sir Robert de Colebi, one oi the Knights of 
Richard the Lion Heart of England. He attended 
the counnon schools of Warner, a commercial col- 
lege at C:oncord, and a .select school. He was for 
six years a member of the School Board of Warner 
(1878-81 and i886-'89) ; Town Treasurer in 1885, 
1886, 1887. and 1896; and in 1894 was appointed 



I'ostmaster. lie has been a member of the State 
Democratic committee for six years. He married. 
December 25, 1882, H. Maria George of Warner. 
He is well known to magazine readers for his con- 
tributions in prose and verse. Two books of his, 




I'RKIJ. MYRON COI.BV. 

'•The Daughter of Pharaoh," and ■•Brave Lads 
and Jionnie Lassies," published by the Methodist 
Book Concern of New York, have had large sales. 
Another book, " Boy Kings and CJirl Queens, Their 
Reigns and Their Achievements." is in the hands 
of his publishers. 



D.VLEY, D.\N1EI, James, Lawyer, Berlin, was 
born in Lancaster, New Hampshire, Januar\- 27, 
181^8, son of John and Ihidget ( Daugherty) Daley. 
He attended the common schools of his native 
town, and subse(]uently had the advantage of an 
academical training. .\t the age of sixteen he 
began teaching school, thus occupying himself in 
the winters and working on the farm in the sum- 
mer, applying his earnings toward gaining an edu- 
cation. .\l the age of twenty-two he began the 
study of law, entiring the office of William and 
Henry Heywootl, and jjinsuing his legal studies 
under their direction until ALirch, 1885, when he 
was admitted to the liar. November 9, 1885, he 
established himself at iierlin. jjractising law alone 
until Februar)' 1, 1891, when he formed a partner- 



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ship witli Hci'l)LTt 1. (loss, wliirli cDiitiinied until 
September 15, 1892. when lulwin C Niles, son of 
the Kight Reverend W. W. Niles. llishop of New 
Hampshire, was adniittetl to the hrni. which 
became Daley, (Joss Ov Niles, .Mr. Niles retired 
from the firm November 26. KSr)4. and the business 
has since lieen conducted undei- the lirm name of 
Daley iS: (loss, who lune a very large clientage. 
In 1882. Mr. Daley was a memlier of the Hoard of 
Supervisors of L.ancaster. and in 1883 was Chair- 
man of this Hoard. He did telling service for his 
part)- on the stump in i883-'84 and i8S7-"88. In 
i886-"87, he served as Town Treasurer of IJerlin, 
and subsequently ser\ed several years as Mod- 
erator. In 1SS8 he was nominated for (^'ounty 
.Solicitor for Coos comity, and was elected In' a 
large majority. Was nominated to succeed himself 
in 1S90, and elected by a majority of seven hundred 
and hft}-one. running largely ahead of his ticket. 
Owing to the press of other business, he declined 
the re-nomination in 1892. In politics Mr. Daley 
is a Democrat. He has been jMomincnt in the 
upbuilding of IJerlin, and is now President of the 




I>.\NIKI. |. DAI.KV. 

People's lluiUliug .lufl Loan .Association, a position 
he has held since the organi/ation of the associa- 
tion si.x years ago. He is a Director and Presi- 
dent of the Herlin Heights Addition P.iud ( 'oni- 
pany. and President and Director of the Herlin 



Water Conipanw He is Director and legal advisor 
of the Herlin Street Railway, now being organized, 
and also a Director of the Northern Electric Com- 
pany of Auljurn, Maine, To the energy and |)er- 
severance of Mr. Daley is due the construction and 
equipment in Herlin, in 1896, of one of the largest 
shoe factory plants in New Kngland, and the loca- 
tion therein of Chick Jirothers of Haverhill, Massa- 
chusetts, a very successful manufacturing firm. 
He is a memlier of the Maynesborcj Club of lierlin. 
Mr. Daley married, May 8, 1886, Ardell .\. Cowan 
of Lancaster, and has one child: Helen j. Daley. 



D()RT, ()iii.ai Cm, MAN, Hanker, Keene, was 
born in Surry, New Hampshire, lanuary 21;, 1828, 
son of Kliphalet and Lois (Hcmis) Dort. He is 
descended from Richard Dort, or Dart, as the 
name was then spelled, who came from l-aigkind in 
1633, settled in Connecticut, and founded a family 
whose niendiers ha\e filled most useful positions 
in the connnnnity. I'he subject of this sketch 
attended the connuon schools antl academy in 
Keene. He left home al fifteen, and learned the 
trade of carriage and sign painter, and at the age 
of twent}--two began business in Keene. dealing in 
drugs, |)aints, and paper hangings. He continued 
in this Inisiness as druggist tmtil 1875. He was 
active in the organization of the Keene Fi\e-cent 
Savings Hank in 1869, and was its Treasurer until 
1875, when he resigned and accepted the Cashier- 
ship of the (_'itizens' National Hank, in the organ- 
ization of which he has taken an active part. In 
1878 he was elected President of the bank, and 
has held the office ever since. He was also prom- 
inent in establishing the Keene Cuaranty Sa\ ings 
Hank, and was Treasurer of that institution until 
i8()2. In his \otmger years he was a member of 
the Keene Light Infantry, and held a commission 
.IS Lieutenant when the old military system was 
abolished. When the Rebellion broke out, Mr. 
Dort took a heartfelt interest in the safet)- of tlu' 
Inion. .nid in the fall of i8(]i, enlisting a conipan\' 
of three years' men, was commissioned Captain of 
Company !•'„ Si.xth Regiment, New llampshiie 
\'ohmteers, afterwards being pi'omoted to Major. 
The legiment was assigned l.i tin- Xinlli ,\rni_\ 
Corps imder Cieneral Hurnsiile. The regiment 
accompanied the famous liurnside expedition to 
North Caroliu.i, which suffered seveiely in the 
great storm off Hatteias. In I he summer of 
1862 it was ordered to aid Ccner.d McClellan, 
ami upon the arri\al .it l''ortress .Mo]iide en- 



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MEN OK Pk(K;RKSS. 



camped at Xcuiioil News. At this time Major 
Dort's wife and son Arthur, aged six years, 
in company witli the wives of Colonel Scott 
and Captain Cunnnings visited the camp. The 
regiment was suddenly ordered away and the ladies 
started for home, taking the steamer West Point for 
\\ashington. On the trip up the Potomac on the 
evening of August 13th. the West Point collided 
with the steamer George Peabody, and almost imme- 
diately sank, Major Dort's wife and son, with both 
the other ladies losing their lives in this terrible dis- 
aster. Among other victims were many wounded 
and sick soldiers. When the collision occurred the 
Captain attempted to beach the boat but was unsuc- 
ces.sful. t'olonel Scott and Dr. Newell of a Penn- 
sylvania regiment directed their energies to saving 
the ladies, but a.s soon as a boat was lowered fran- 
tic men leaped in in siicii numbers that boat after 
boat went down until all were carried away. Then 
Colonel Scott and Dr. Newell lifted the ladies upon 
the hurricane deck and supported them imtil the 
water was above their waists. In this moment of 
agony and despair Colonel Scott saw a capsized 




(ii;ki) i;. dori'. 

boat drifting by and swam towards it with the hope 
of rescuing the ladies. The boat drifted by him 
and at the .same time the steamer's deck gave way. 
and all upon it were thrown into the water. He 
endeavored to return to the wreck, and tinallv 



caught an iron rod which bracetl the smoke stack, 
to which he clung until he was rescued. Dr. New- 
ell, the ladies, and the child were swept away and 
lost their lives in the llood. When Major Dort 
enlisted in the service he had left a well-organized 
business in the charge of his wife, but after this 
terriljje disaster on the Potomac, with no one to 
whom he could entrust the business while he 
remained at the front, and with the care of his one 
surviving child, left motherless at the age of four 
years, he felt it his duty to leave the service. 
Therefore, in the fall of 1862, he regretfully resigned 
his conuuission. To leave the service from no 
bodily disability, when every surrounding was sat- 
isfactory and the country was in need of every 
man's aid, might seem unjustifiable to the superfi- 
cial observer who stayed at home to make money, 
but he has considered that perhaps it will be agreed 
that one year's service is better than none at all. 
While Major Dort was at the front with his regi- 
ment he participated in the battle of Elizabeth City. 
Camden, North Carolina, Second Bull Run. Chan- 
tilly. South Mountain, and Antietam. In his 
younger days Major Dort was acti\'e in the clubs 
and societies, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, but of 
later years he has regarded his own home as the 
best club Iiouse. He was for many years Vestrv- 
man and Warden in .St. James's Episcopal Church. 
In politics he has always been a Democrat, believ- 
ing the end and aim of government should be the 
greatest good for the greatest number. He has 
held very few political offices, for in Keene the tide 
is very strongly Republican. In ( )ctober, 1851, he 
was married to Julia N. Wakefield, daughter of 
James Wakefield of Marlborough. Oi the children 
born of this marriage, .\rthur Wakefield, born 
February :!5, 1856, perished with his mother in the 
sad disaster to the West Point : Frank (oilman, born 
Deiember 17. 1S57. now lives in Keene; Marv 
FUen Dort. born February 15, 1 861, died November 
jy of the same year. On December 17, 1863, 
Major Dort was married to Sarah fane, daughter of 
(knernor William llaile of Hinsdale. 



Cl'TI.F.K, C.iaiki;!'. 1 Mii.ksciM,. Plnsician. West 
Swanzey. was born in Keene. New Hampshire, 
December 10, 1833, son of (lardner C. and Olive 
H. (Watts) Cutler, (hi the paternal side, he 
traces his descent from James Cutler, who came to 
this country and settled in \\'atertown, Massachu- 
setts, in 1634. Dr. Cutler's father was a fanner 
and was born in Hinsdale in 1807. The son 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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attended scliodls in Keene and Oharleslown, \e\v public sciiools ot ((ineDid and w.is ;;ra(kiated lioni 
Hampshire, and Alstead and niattiel)"!!), X'ennont. the High School. Ili.s hrst emplo\nient was in the 
For ten year.s before taking up his jjrolession he freight office of the Concord Railroad as clerk; 
was a teacher. He was graduated from the Medi- then for several years he was a clerk in the First 
cal Department of the l.'ni\'ersity of \'erinont in National I!ank, a p<isition he lett to become book- 
keeper for F. H. Rollins iS; Son, Investment Hank- 
ers, subsequently becoming a partner, and Treas- 
uier of the compan\' upon its incorporation under 
the okl hrm name. Ho was elected Cashier and 
Clerk of the Roard of Directors of the Mechanicks 
National Bank in j.muary, 1S94. He is now ser\- 
ing as Treasurer ol a number of societies and cor- 
porations, being Treasurer and Director of the 
lleec lier l''alls ('ompany, manufacturers of furniture 
.md h.irthvood Ihidring; of La Concordia Cam- 
pania, a comixin\' formed to grow coffee in Mexico; 
nf ."si. Paul's Parish. Concord ; of the Cuild of ,St. 
I'aul's ; of the JSo.ird of Managers of Diocesan 
Missions for New Hampshire; of the Prayer liook 
Distribution Committee; and of the Home Realty 
Company, a corporation haxing thirtv thousand 
dollars invested in real estate in ( dncord. He is a 
Director of the Young Men's Christian Association, 




i;eo. r. cui'i-ER. 

1864, and soon after began |)ractice in West Swan- 
zey, where he has since remained. He has been 
Town Clerk for thirty-tw« years, and has served 
on the Jioarcl of Education every year but one 
during his residence in the t<iwn. He is a mem- 
ber of the Cheshire County Medical Society, of 
which he has been I-'resident, and of the State and 
Connecticut River Medical societies. lie is a 
Mason and a member of the Lodge of Social 
P'riends. Keene. For eight years he has been a 
member of the lioard of Pension ExamiTiers. fn 
politics, he is a Democrat, but has never taken an 
active part, nor sought office, Dr, Cutler was mar- 
ried. ]''el)ruary [4, i,S66, to F, Jennie .\ldrich of 
Westmoreland, New Hampshire. 




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IIAKKN II. |i|ll>l.l':V. 



Dl'DLlA. ll\kR\- Hrnr.AKii, llankei. Com ord. 
was born in that cil)'. June 1 1. 1859, son of llub- 

bard Thomas and .\ntoinette (Cordon) Dudle)-, and of the ProhU- .V Franconia Notch Railroad 

He belongs to the Covernor Thomas Dudlev Comp.iny, as well ,is |)ire(liii in V.. 11. Rollins ,V 

family, being a lineal descendant in the eighth Sons (incorporated baid-aas. .Milk street, lioston). 

generation from the i'^lder flovernor of the .Massa- I le is a Vestryman of St. Paul's Church of Concord ; 

chusetts Rurit. Ill Commonwealth. He attended the Second \'ice-President and Director of the Wono- 



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Ml!:N Ol" I'ROCRKSS. 



lancet Club; a Diicctor of the Passaconaway Out- 
ing Clul>, and a member of the Snow Shoe Chib, all 
of ("omord. Mr. Dudley married October 30, 
1883. Anne liartlelt Minot. daughter of the late 
Charles Minot, of the banking firm of Minot iV 
Company, which firm was dissolved about 1880, 
when the Mechauicks Hank was chartered. He has 
three children: Dorothea Minot. Charles Hubbard. 
and Thomas Minot Dudley, 

EASTM.W. I'.nwiN Ct.\.m.\(;k, Attorney-General 
of New Hampshire. I'lxeter. was born in Grantham, 
November 22. 1847, son of NA'illiam Henry and 
Paulina (Winter) Kastman. He was educated in 
the common schools of the town, at Kimball Union 
Academy, and at Dartmouth College, from which he 
was graduated in the class of 1874. He studied 
law in the office of Judge .\. P. Carpenter at liath. 
and was admitted to the Har in 1876. In Septem- 
ber of that year he began the practice of his profes- 
sion in K.xeter. becoming the jwrtner of the late 
(General Gilnian Marston. In 1876 he was Repre- 
sentative from the town of Cirantham in the lower 




KDWIN ('.. K.\STM.\N. 

branch of the State Legislature, and in 1889 was a 
member of the Stale Senate. He was County So- 
licitor of Rockingham county from 1883 to 1888. 
I'pon the death of the Hon. Daniel Barnard in 
189J. Mr. I'.astman was ap]iointed .Xttorney-General 



of the state, and tins position he still Imlds. He 
has earned for hini.self a leading position at the Har 
of the state, having served in many important and 
famous cases, again and again proving his ability to 
deal with weighty legal questions. In his legisla- 
tive service he occupied a prominent position and 
has always given strong support to the best inter- 
ests of the community in which he li\es. 

KMKRS()N, ( iiNki.Es Fr.wki.in. .\ppleton Pro- 
fessor of Natural Philosophy and Dean of the Fac- 
ulty, Dartmouth College, Hanover, was born in 
( lielmsfcird, Massachusetts. September 28, 1843, 
son of ( )wen and Louisa (liulterheld) Kmerson. The 
genealogy of the P^merson family has not been fully 
traced, but the subject of this sketch is descended 
from the Reading, Massachusetts, branch, his father 
being a distant cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
His maternal grandfather was Captain John lUitter- 
field. Mr. Emerson attended the district schools 
of his native town, and also a private academy for 
three terms. He was fitted for college at Westford 
(Massachusetts) Academy, under John D. Long, 
now Secretary of the Navy, and at Appleton Acad- 
emy, under Professor E. T. Quiniby. He entered 
Dartmouth College in the class of '68, and although 
while in college he had little spare time, yet, then as 
now, he was very much interested in all branches of 
athletics. He .stood second at the junior exhibition, 
giving a Greek oration. At graduation he was 
salutatorian of his class, and it is recorded of him, 
during his college cours* that he had not a single 
cut in college exercises until the spring term of his 
senior year, when sickness kept him in the house 
for a few days, liefore entering college he had 
worked on his father's farm. In 1859 he hatl full 
charge of this farm of two hundred acres 
dining his father's absence. He was much in- 
terested in farming, and look an active part 
in Lyceums, holding offices in town and school 
meetings, but his career was fated to lie in other 
lines than those of a farmer. His first experience 
in teaching was gained in the winter of 1861, and 
lie has been a teacher ever since. Immediately upon 
gradvialion. he was an Instructor at Dartmouth, and 
he has been continuously connected with the college 
since. He was a Tutor in Mathematics until 1872, 
when he was appointed Associate Professor of Nat- 
ural Philosophy and Mathematics. He was made 
Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and In- 
structor in Astronomy in 1878. on the withdrawal 
of Professor C. A. Young to Princeton College ; 



MEN OF Pk()r;KF:ss. 



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he carried on tlie work of tlie 1\\(j chairs of Physics tember, 1884, he was aliroatl, visitini; uni\ crsities 
and Astrononi}-, with Httle assistance for fifteen in England. I'rance, Germany, and Itah'. In col- 
years, when in tSi)2. he was relieved of the Astron- lege, he was a member of the Alpha l)elta I'hi 
omy h\' the appointment of Professor E. B. Frost l-'raternity. and also of the Phi llet.i Ka|)pa. lie 
to that chair, and his title became Appleton Pro- lias been a fellow of the .\inerican .\ssociation for 

the .\dvancement of .Science since 18S4. and was 
one of the original se\en memliers who formed 
the UarlnKJuth Scientilic /vsxjciation in 1871. 
I'or se\eral )e,irs he was a member of the A|.ipala- 
chian MoniUain ( 'hib of Pxiston. In politics he is 
a Republican. Professor Emerson married Janu- 
ary 20, 1875, Caroline Flagg of North Chelmsford, 
Massachusetts. lie has two tlaughtens : Martha 
l'"lagg and l'anil\- .Sophia I-anerson. 

E\"l';kl\ IT. (.'.I'liikiiK IIknrn, justice of the Ea- 
conia Police Court, was born in ISoston, Massachu- 
setts, September 5. 1833. son of George and Sarah 
(Elms) Everett, lie is of the stock of the late 
lulward Everett of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He 
attended the public schools in ISoston and Chester, 
New Hampshire, and was a graduate of the Prighton, 
Massachusetts. High School. He s|x-nt several 




C. F. FMERSON. 



fessor of Natural Philnsopln which he now retains. 
In 1893, when l)r. Win. J. Tucker became Presi- 
dent of the College, the ofifice of Dean was created 
and Professor Emerson was elected by the Trustees 
to the office, which position he still holds ; and 
Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1892. 
He wa.s Instructor in Mathematics in the New 
Hampshire College of Agriculture and .Mechanic 
Arts, i868-'74. He heard the lirst recitation in 
the Agricultural College in September. 186.S. and 
assisted Professor Dimond in organizing the col- 
lege and arranging schedules of recitations. His 
life has been an active one. In Darlmouthf he 
has served on almost ever)' kind of committee 
known to the college world, and has advanced 
through all the grades of instruclorship. from Tutor 
to I)c-an. under three administrations, those of 
Doctors Smith, ISarllett, and Tu( kcr. He is well 
accpiaintefl with the working of the college and 
has an unusually large acquaintance with members 
of the .\hnnni. He is popular with the studiaits, 
and takes a keen interest in the picigress of the 
college and town. I'rom N(n ember, 1883, to Sep- 



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(;i;iikc;k ii. KVKUKr i . 

yeais in the grocer)- and pro\-ision business in Bos- 
ton, Massachu.setts, and for twelve )ears was a 
li-,neling salesman of the house of I,. .S. Eeonaril, 
stationers and bookliinders. In 1869 In- purchased 
the Willard Hotel. ,U I.aconi.i. New Hampshire, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



wliith he successfull\- iiiaiKigcd for liftccn years, 
when he converted it into a private residence where 
lie now resides. In 1876 he was appointed High 
Sheriff by (Governor P. C. Cheney, his term of office 
expiring at the end of three years. In 1892 he was 
appointed Associate Justice of Laconia PoHce Court 
by C.overnor Hiram A. Tullle. and in 1895 he was 
made Chief Justice by (Governor Charles A. Busiel. 
He also conducts a large and successful insurance 
business, his principal office being Room No. 10, 
Masonic 'I'emplc. He is a 'I'hirty-second degree 
Mason, and has tilled all the chairs in Mt. Lebanon 
Lodge, No. 32, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
Union Chapter, No. 7, Royal Arch Masons, and 
Pythagoria Council, No. 3, Royal and Select Mas- 
ters. In politics he lias been a lifelong Republi- 
can. In 1872 Mr. Everett was married to Sarah !•'. 
Gray of Jackson. New Hampshire. 



ELDREDtlE, Hkman F'isher, President and 
Treasurer of the Eldredge Brewing Company of 
Portsmouth, was born in Chatham, Massachusetts, 
April 13. i8:;2. son of lleman and Mary (Harding) 




and now has an annual product of one hundred 
thousand barrels. It was organized in 1S75, as a 
stock company, with Marcellus Eldredge. as Presi- 
dent and Treasurer, and was continued under this 
management until 189 1, when he disposed of his 
interest to II. Fisher Eldredge, the present Presi- 
dent and Treasurer, as well as proprietor. Mr. 
Eldredge was elected to the Legislature from his 
ward in 1889, and made a creditable record. He is 
a Director of the New Hampshire National Hank of 
Portsmouth, and of the Portsmouth Gas Light Com- 
pany. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity 
and other secret orders. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. .\lthough he resides in Portsmouth, he has a 
suniiiier residence in his native town of Chatham. 
Mr. Eldredge was married April 22, 1873, '^'^ Addie 
I'liza Young of Chatham. They have two children : 
.Nettie E., now the wife of James F. Shaw, and 
Sadie Exeline Eldredge. 



11. KISHKR KMIRKDCE. 

Eldredge. His early education was received in llie 
schools of Chatham and Portsmouth. He became 
identified with the brewing industry in connection 
with his brother. Hon. Marcellus Eldredge. This 
industrv was .started in a moderate way in 1858, 



I'RENCH, Lkonarti. for many years one of the 
leading physicians of Manchester, where he died 
February 14, 1892. was born in liedford, New- 
Hampshire, November 11, 1S17. son of Leonard 
C. and Nancy (Hutchinson) F'rench. His father 
was a prominent town officer of Bedford. The 
son attended the common schools of his native 
town and was fitted for college at Gilmanton Acad- 
emy. He entered Dartmouth in 1839, and was 
graduated in the class of 1843, among his class- 
mates being Professor Alvah Hovey of Newton 
Theological Seminary, Hon. Hariy Bingham of 
Littleton, and John Newton Putnam, who became 
Professor of Greek at Dartmouth, all of whom 
attained to great eminence. Dr. French's parents 
were in moderate circumstances, his father being a 
farmer, and he was obliged to teach school winters 
in order to procure the means with which to defray 
the expenses of his education. ( )n leaving college he 
taught a select school in Bedford for three months, 
and then the Academy at Piscataquog, now known 
as West Manchester, for four months. Deciding 
to embrace the medical profession he .studied with 
Doctors Josiali and Thomas R. Crosby at Man- 
chester, and attended lecture courses at Dartnunith. 
He took his degree in 1846, and began practice in 
his native town, but in .April. 1847. entered into 
partnershii) with Dr. Alfred Hitchcock in .\slib\-, 
Massachusetts, where he remained three years, and 
then removed with Dr. Hitchcock to Fitchburg, 
Massachusetts. His stay in Fitchburg was short, 
however, for at the expiration of three months he 



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returned to Ashh\- wliere he did a larne and nmst 
prosperous business. Desirous of gi\ing his ciiil- 
dren better educational advantai^a-s than were to be 
had at Ashl)y. he reiu(i\ed to Manciiester in iS6i, 
and at once entered u|3on an extensive |.iractice. 





LEON AR 11 FRK.XCH. 

In i866-'67, he was City Physician; in 1S72. 
President of the Manchester Medical Society; in 
1873, a delegate to Dartmouth Medical College, 
where he made the address to the graduating class. 
He was also Consulting Physician to the Klliot 
Hospital. Counsellor of l)oth the Manchester and 
New Hampshire Medical .Societies, and a Director 
in the Anioskeag Savings liank. Possessed of a 
vigorous constitution tiiat was never impaired by 
excesses of any kind, he was enabled to follow his 
calling actively late in life when many others 
younger than he were obliged to shrink from its 
active duties and responsibilities. It was as an 
obstetrician that he was most widely known. He 
performed all the o])erations incident to tliis de- 
partment with signal success. He was at all times 
kindlv. patient, and genial, a friend to his patients 
as well as a skillful physician. 'I'he influence of 
his upright living and his Christian character did 
not fail to makt- its impress upun the connnunities 
wherein he resided. He was a consistent member 
of the Hanover Street Congregational church, and 
a Deacon in the oriranization until his death. In 



184(1, lie married .Sarah M., daughter i if Henry 
and I.ydia (W'hitne}) Melville of Nelson, by whom 
111' had one son ; Leonard Melville l'"rench, born 
|ul\ 2fi, 1849, and at present a prcuninent phvsician 
of Manchester. His wife dying in 1849, he mar- 
ried her sister, Ann Maria, in 1850, having In her 
one son: Henr\- Minot I'lench. who betame a 
successful physician at Concord, and died June 13, 
1893. His second wife died in lanuarv, 1866, and 
June 25. 1867, he manied Mrs. Mar\- I ). Moore, 
daughter of D|-. John Ramsey of Creenheld, and 
widow iif Dr. ( ieorge W. Moore of .Amherst, who 
sin-\ i\'es him. 



(in.S.S, HKKr.i-:!-;! Ir\in, ( 'ountv .Solicitur, ller- 
lin. was born in Waterford. X'ermont, December 4. 
1857, son of Abel II. and l,n(\ S. (Ross) Coss. 
He was educated at the Kimmon schools of his 
nati\e town and at St. Johnsbury Academy, from 
whitli he was graduated in 1880. .After teaching 
school Inr one year, he commenced the study of 
law- in the office of Dates ^: May of St. [ohnsbur)-, 
continuing f<ir two )ears, when he was admitted to 



P' 




/> /VJ 




iiKkiacR'r I. oo.ss. 

the liar of Caledonia ((iunt\- in 1883. In ( )ctober 
of the same )-eai' he removed lo ,M inneapcilis. Min- 
nesota, and entered into a law ixutnershij) with 
!''. II. Wright, which continued but a short time. 
In i.SS) he relumed Ici X'enniinl. and openeil an 



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MK\ OI' PROGRESS. 



Towns and Parishes, and suivcd on Comniittees of 
Revision of Laws. Finance, and State Prison and 



office in C.uildhall. i)iit in a few months reino\ed to tow. Sandown. Seahrook. and Sontii Hampton, lie 
Lancaster, New Hampshire, to form a partnership has never accepted any other office. In the Senate 
with Hon. Jacob P.enton, one of the leading attor- he was appointed Chairman of Committees on 
neys of the state. He was admitted to the Bar of 
New Hampshire in July. 1SS5. After two years he 
severed his connection with Mr. Benton, removed 
to Ciorham. and formed a jxirtnership with Hon. 
A. S. 'I'witchell. which continued until November, 
1888. He then went to Berlin, which place had 
been growing rapidly and had become an important 
town, practiced alone until 1 891, when he entered 
into partnership with Daniel J. Daley, under the 
firm name of Daley (S; C.oss. This firm still con- 
tinues, .Mr. (loss is an able lawyer, and the firm 
has an extensive practice in this and other states. 
He also takes an active interest in all matters relat- 
ing to the improvement of ]3erlin. In politics he is 
an ardent Republican, and is a successful leader in 
the councils of that party. In 1894 he was elected 
County Solicitor, and was re-elected in 1896. He 
has given great satisfaction in this office. October 
8. 1 886, he married Agnes Roone\-. and has a family 
of four children. 



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GRAVES, RuFUs I'',iiw.\rii. State Senator. Pro- 
prietor of the Rockingham Junction Railway Res- 
taurant, and a Farmer, was born in Brentwood, New 
Hampshire. December 8, 1855, son of Joseph B. T. 
and Harriet N. (Wood) Graves. His early educa- 
tion was gained in the common schools and at 
Kingston Academy. He entered the railway mail 
service in July, 1S79, and served continuously for 
si.xteen years, having rapidly advanced to the posi- 
tion of Chief Clerk of the First Division, embracing 
Maine. New Hampshire, and parts of Massachu- 
•setts and \ermont. with headquarters at Portland, 
Maine. He w-as extremely popular with one hun- 
dred and seventy men who served under him in 
this division. When he retired they gave practical 
evidence of their appreciation for his kindness and 
courtesy by presenting him with valuable tokens of 
esteem. Mr. (Graves resigned his position in the 
Railway Mail Service to buy and conduct the 
Rockingham Junction Railway Restaurant. He is 
an enthusiastic and practical farmer and owns a 
large herd of thoroughbred Jerseys, and is also an 
extensive breeder of Berkshire hogs. He was a 
member of the State Senate from the Twenty-first 
District, embracing the towns of Atkinson, Brent- 
wood. Chester. Danville, East Kingston, Exeter, 
Fremont, Hampstead. Hampton, Hampton F'alls, 
Kensington, Kingston, Newfields. Newton. Plais- 




R. K. CR.WES. 

Industrial Schools. He is a Mason, belonging to 
Gideon l^odtre of Kin"ston. 



(IRllllX. Simon Goodki.i.. was born in Nel- 
son, New Hampshire, August 9. 1S24. son of 
Nathan and Sally (Wright) Griffin. His ancestry 
as far back as the)- have been traced, were men of 
prominence in the communities where they lived, 
and more than ordinary strength of intellect and 
force of character. His grandfather, "Squire" 
Samuel Griffin, went, when a lad, from Iiradford. 
Massachusetts, to Temple. New Hampshire, and 
before the close of the l\e\iilutionary War to 
Packerslield. as the town of Nelson was then 
called. He married the daughter of the settled 
minister, the Reverend Jacob Foster, and made his 
residence there. His superior abilities were soon 
recognized by his election to the Legislature and 
other offices. Both he and .Nehemiah Wright, the 
General's maternal grandfather, were patriotic sol- 
diers in the Continental Army, and both took part 
in the I'.altle of P.unker Hill. Nath.m C.rillin. the 
Cieneral's father, was a man of high abililx. hut not 



INIEN Ol' 



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of rugged healtli, tliough lie lixcd t(i tlie agu of 
eight3--six. In consequt'iiCL' of his illness the rare 
of the faniil)- of seven children fell ehieflv upon his 
wife, one of the loveliest of women in person and 
character, and one of tiiose nohle mothers \vh<i 
bless the worki liv living in it, anil her wise cmni- 
sels and careful training had a most benign and 
happy influence upon her son. She died at the 
age of ninet3'-fonr, her eye nndinimed and her mind 
unclouded to the last. At the age of si.x, the sub- 
ject of this sketch, owing to his father's ill health, 
went to live for some years with his uncle, (".eneral 
Samuel (iriftin, in the adjoining town of Koxburv. 
His uncle had decided talents for military atfairs, 
and had Ijcen a volunteer in the War of iSij, Init 
not called into acti\"e service, and attained the 
highest rank in the State Militia. His fondness 
for militar\- affairs and his habit of talking about 
militarv history and of repeating descriptions which 
he had read of battles and campaigns, made a deep 
and lasting impression upon the mind of his 
nephew. The old general's favoiite dixersion was 
to attend the annual muster of the division of 
militia which he commanded, and to accompanv 
him on such an occasion, was a privilege his 
nephew prized highly and looked forward to with 
long and eager anticipation. He was a successful 
farmer, a man of great industry and energy himself, 
and believed firmly in hard work and frugality for 
all his household as a means of success. Never, 
after seven years of age, could the boy be spared 
from the farm to attend school, except for ten or 
twelve weeks in the winter. This was all the 
schooling he ever received, but his natural andai- 
tion and eagerness for knowledge led him to spend 
what leisure he had in reading and study, so that 
at eighteen he was able to ofjtain emplo\inent as a 
school teacher, a vocation in which he att.iined 
marked success. He continuetl his studies while 
he taught each winter, .working on the farm in sum- 
mer, until he had mastered .dl the higher Knglish 
branches, and became |)r(j|icient in Latin and 
French, and traversed a wide Held of miscellaneous 
reading, making a specialty of history and the lives 
of military chieftains. Thus by inheritance, train- 
ing, and self-education, he had liecome uncon- 
sciously fitted for the woik that la)' l:)efori' him, and 
cultivated that patriotic de\(ition and aptitude for 
military affairs which have won for him an eminent 
place among the soldiers of his own state, and 
made him one of the best vohmteer officers in the 
War of the Rebellion. In 1.S50 he marriefl I'rsula, 



daughter of Jason Harris of Nelson. She died 
soon after the liirth ol a son who did not long siu'- 
\i\e her. After this berea'vement he went to loxe- 
ter. where he began the study of law. He had 
pre\'iously representetl his native town in the Legi.s- 
lature for twij years, serving in his second term 
as Chairman of the Committee on f'.ducation. He 
was admitteil to the liar at ( 'oncord in i.Sdo, and 
had just begun his |.)ra(tice when the war broke 
out. ,\ recent trip to Washington had conxincecl 
him of the approac h of the conflict, and of its 
awfulness ,ind long continu.nue w.heii it should 
come. (;i\ing u|3 his practice, he joined a com- 
pany of young men then forming at Concord under 
the first call of President Lincoln for se\enty-fi\e 
thousand men, .md de\dted himself assiduouslv to 
the stud)' of militar)- tactics. He \'olunteered as a 
private and was chosen Captain of the company. 
New Hampshire's (_|Uota of '■ three months' men" 
being alreaih' full, he anil his ciimpar.y \olunteered 
inunediateh' under the second call for three years 
or the war. 'I'his company was tiie celebrated 
■•Coodwin Rides." so called out of compliment to 
(loxernor Ichabod (ioodwin, Comjjany IS, Second 
New Hampshire \'olunteers, was armed with 
Sharp's rifles, and was the onh' com]ianv sent out 
from the state armed with liieech-loailing weapons. 
It was assigned to the Second Regiment with head- 
quarters at Portsmouth, and there its (jfhcers anil 
men were mustered intcj the service of the United 
.States. June 4, 1861. It was tiet.dled under Cap- 
tain Crifhn's connnand at the lirst battle of Pull 
Run. lor skirmish ilut)'. and was hantlled with 
lemarkable coolness and braveiv, though it was 
under a heavy lire and lost twehe men, killed and 
wouniled. After that l)attle the Second New 
Hampshire with other regiments was brigaded at 
llladensljurg mider Ceneral Joseph Hooker. His 
attention ha\ing been lalled to the eftectixeness of 
('(jmp.iu)' ll's .uinament. he obtained for ('aptain 
(Iril'fin a le.i\e of absence and gave him letters of 
recommendation to the (io\ernor of New Hamp- 
shire with a \iew to h.uing him raise a regiment or 
b.Utalion simil.nK' .nnied. The state autliorities, 
liowe\er. like those al W'.ishington and m.ui\' legu- 
lar arm\' olVuers, ultra-conservativi-s and liniid and 
opposed to innovations, refused to sanction the 
project, on the ground of the great expense in- 
\(il\ed. Captain Cirilfm was promoted to be Lii-u- 
tenant-Colonel of the Sixth New Ham]ishire \ olun- 
teers on the 2(ith of ()(ti}l)er, i.Sdi, and soon joined 
the regiment at its rende/\'ous, Tiial regiment 



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proceeded to W'^isliinijlon, aiul was assigned to 
Burnside's expedition to North Carolina, and 
landed on Hatteras Island in January, 1862. On 
the second of March, it removed to Roanoke 
Island, and on the 8th, six companies, inider Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Criffin, were detailed to assist Gen- 
eral 1. C. I-'osler in an expedition to Columbia. 
L'pon his return to camp, the Lieutenant-Colonel 
found himself in command of the regiment, its 
Colonel haxing resigned, .\pril 7, he commanded 
an expedition made up of four companies of the 
Sixth New llampshiic, and twnof the Ninth New 
York, al>out six lunuhi'd men in all. with five gun- 
boats and one steam transport, sent to break up a 
rendezvous of rebels near Elizabeth City, North 
Carolina. .\rri\ing at the point designated just 
before da\break on ihe eighth, he ordered Major 
Jardine, with the two New \'ork Companies, to land 
at Elizabeth City below the rebel camp, which was 
near the river, while with his own fniu' companies 
he ran bevond in the daikncss. and landed above 
to cut off tiie enemy's retreat. The attack was 
made simultaneously, and the rebels fled at the 
first tire ; but seveial of tin' latter were killed and 
wounded, and seventy-four were captured, together 
with three hundred and lift)' stands of arms and 
a quantity of amniunitinn. ,\t the battle of Cam- 
den, North C'arolina, April 19, Colonel (jriffin com- 
manded his regiment, nearly one thousand strong. 
His conunand being helil in reser\'e, was ordered 
to attack at the critical moment of the battle when 
the enemy, from a strong ]josition behind earth- 
works, rail fences, and linildings, had repelled a 
charge of part of Hawkins's brigade, and thrown 
the Union lines into some confusion. Advancing 
in line of battle. Griffin's troops faltered somewhat 
under a sharp fire of artillery, but assured by his 
coolness and courage, halted in perfect formation, 
and at conunand. lired in a \iille_\' with such pre- 
cision that the cnem\' broke and fled. It was 
reported that men of the 'Ihiid Georgia declared 
that " they did n't care nuich for those red-legged 
Zoua\es, but when the regul.irs povu'ed in that 
volley, they thought it time to git." This splendid 
achievement was chielly due to the discipline, 
instruction, and drilling maintained by Lieutenant- 
Colonel Griffin while commanding at Roanoke 
Island, which gave it a high re])utation for smart- 
ness in appearance, |)roliciency in drill, and effec- 
tiveness in action. On .April 22, 1862, he was 
commissioned Colonel of his regiment, and in July 
was assigned to Reno's Division of the Ninth Army 



Corps, and sent to General Pope's aid for the \'ir- 
ginia Campaign. During the second battle of Hull 
Run, Colonel Griflin and his regiment were almost 
surrounded, receiving a murderous lire in front. 
Hank, and rear, 'i'hinking the Union troops were 
firing upon them b\- mistake, he seized the colors, 
and waved them in the direction whence the lire 
was hottest, only to increase it. Then he ga\t- the 
order to retreat, and lirought off the renniant of his 
men. Six of the color guard were shot down while 
bearing the colors, and the Colonel himself at last 
took them again and canied them off the field. 
He [larticipatecl in the battles of Chantilly, Soutii 
Mountain, Antietam — where his regiment was the 




S, C;, CRIKI'IN, 

iirst to plant its colors on the heights above the 
.Stonebridge of sanguinary memory, and where for 
gallantry in action General Uurnside re(c>mmended 
him for promotion — and {''redericksburg. In 1863, 
he was placed permanently in command of the 
Fir.st Brigade, Second Division, Ninth .\rmy Corps, 
and was transferred to Kentucky, and thence to 
Mississippi, and particijiated in tiie campaign 
against Vicksburg, Upon his return to Kentucky, 
he was placed in conunand of Camp Nelson, an 
important recruiting station, and depot of supplies, 
\\'hile there, his regiment re-enlisted for three years 
or the war, and Colonel Griffin was ordered to 
superintend the re-enlistmenl of New Hampshire 



MI'.N Ol- I'ROCIRI'.SS. 59 

veterans in the departiiienls of Nirninia and North in his state. He led Ids division in the grand 
Carolina. He was assigned, in the spring of 1S64, review at \\'ashington Ma)' 23, and was mustered 
to command tiie Second IJrigade of the Second out in August. 18G5. His services had been active, 
Division of the Ninth Ami)- Corps in the Wilder- arduous, and honorable to ,1 high degree; bra\e. 
ne.ss Campaign. He left Alexandria with six regi- ready, of sound judgment and disi retion, he was 
ments. reporting twenty-seven hundred lighting always in demand at the front ; .md he was always 
men. ,\t the close of that great campaign, he had with his tioops when lhe_\- weie in b.ittle or under 
lost, in killed and wounded, three thousand men, lire. He took part in twenty-two great battles, as 
three hundred more than his original number, regi- well as in numbeiless skiiinishes and lesser tights, 
ments and recruits having been constantly added For months in front (jf I'etersburgh he was under 
to his command. At Spottsylvania Court House, hre so sharp and constant that his brigade lost at 
May 12, 1.S64. he won his star by bringing up his times five per cent, of its members each week. He 
brigade to Hancock's support after a successful had two horses killed and live wounded under him 
charge by the latter, which left his tioojis with in action, and had his clothing and equipments 
Isroken forinati(ins in the excitement of \ ii tory. frequently cut h\ hostile bullets. \et he never 
'I'he brunt of a connter-tharge of three Confecl- received a scratrh, and never lost a tlav's duty 
erate divisions was borne bv Ciritlin's (cimniaud friim sickness, owing largely.no doubt, to his tem- 
until other troops coulil be brought to his aid. perate habits. He was ten<lered a commission as 
h'or this gallant act, Ccilonel (dilTni. upon recom- Major in the regular .irmv .it the close of the war. 
mendation of (lenerals Grant and liurnside. was but he declined to accept it. I luring the war he 
nominated to he a l^rigadier-Ceneral of \ dhin- married Margaret Lanison of Keene, New Hamp- 
teers, the nomination being conlirmed by the shire, and at its close took up his residence there. 
Senate, without debate, reference, or a dissenting He represented the town in the Legislature in 
vote. In the engagements befoie I'etersburgh. iS66-'68, serving two terms as S])eaker of the 
Ceneral (Irifhn bore a conspicuous p.irt, and his House. Twice he received the Repulili(.m nomi- 
troops never failed to give a good aci (junt of nation for Congress, but at each election his party 
themselves. In the s|)ring of iSf)^ he had com- was defeated, and he was swept .iwav with the 
mand of that part of the l'nif)n line near the jeru- other candidates. In 1867 the honorary degree of 
salem Plank Road, and at the final assault with his Master of Arts was conferred upon him by Dart- 
brigade made two separate attacks, at points a mouth College. For several veais after the war 
mile apart, between midnight and davbreak, a feat he engaged in manufac luring near his home, but 
almost without parallel in the historv of the Civil later on he turned his .ittention to pai ilic pursuits 
War. in the last of these att.icks. the division in the South, and liecame hugely inttaested in the 
commander having been severely wounded, den- development of Texas, spending with his wife and 
eral Criffin succeeded him and retained rouun.uul two sons much time in that state. More recently 
through the campaign, ending with Fee's surrender, he has lieen engaged in writing the history of 
and until the close of the war. ( )ther troops made Keene, for which his scholarlv tastes, broatl learn- 
attacks on tliat Sunday morning, and someoflhem ing, and habits of study pecailiailv (pi.diiy him. 
broke through the outer line of the eneniv fmther He has a wide |-eputation as a public s])eaker. 
away from I'etersbnrgh, but this chargi' of Cieneral He is a member of the Massachusetts Commanderv 
Criftin, made side by side with that of Cener.d of the Military ( »r(h'r of the Foy.d Legion of the 
Hantranft. connnanding a division of I'eunsylvania L'nited .States, and lor the years i.SS; and i,S<S,S 
troo])s, with pioneers in atlvance to tear away the was its Connuander. 
abatis, was the principal assault of thai morning 

and did the hardest lighting, and was the cjuly one CRI'.h'.N Fl I'.LD, Ciiaki.ks, I'aiuier, Rochester, 

that broke through the enemy's main line near the was born in that place, hebruary, iS, i,S26, son of 

city. In that charge seven lumdied and Iwentv- John and I'IkcIjc (Wentworth) (Ireeniield. He 

five men of (leneral Criftin's divisicju fell. Foi loines of good old New Fngland stock, his ancestors 

distinguisiied gallantry in that assault, vvhii h he Ijeing among the early colonists. I le received his 

formed and he himself led. Cencaal Criffm was education in the conuuon s(-hools of Rochester and 

brevetted a Major-Ceneral of \olunteers, thus at the academy in the same |)lace. Upon leaving 

attaining the iiighest rank of any volunteer ofiicer school he chose agricultui'e as his life work, and 



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MK\ Ol 



'ROC.RI'.SS. 



has engaged in thai pursuit ever since. He is 
President and Trustee of tiie Rochester Savings 
Bank and a Director of tlie National Bank. Mr. 
(Jrcenfield possesses C|uiek perception, clear judg- 
ment, and sound reason. His accuracv in matters 




Divinity .School in tiial year, and graduating in 
1875. He was ordained Pastor of the Congrega- 
tional church in Littleton, Massachusetts, Septem- 
ber 2, 1S75. resigning that pastorate March 1, 1877, 
to accept a call to the ("ongregational church in 
Vergennes, Vermont, where he was installed May 
2. 1877. His jxistorate in Vergennes was highly 
successful, but he resigned inOctfjber, 1883, and 
was installed Pastor of the First church in 1 )over, 
January 2, 1884. 'I'liis church is the oldest in New 
Hampshire, having been organized in 1638, and the 
First parish dating back to October, 1633. Dr. 
Hall is the twentv-third on the rf)ll of Pastors of 
this histoiii al church. Among the list are: Jeremy 
Belknap, 1 ). I). ; Hubbard Winslow, D. D.. LL. D. ; 
David Root; Flias H. Richardson, D. !).. and 
Ceorge P>. Spaulding. 1). D., LL. D. This church 
is one of the most influential in the state, and in 
the report of benevolent contributions is thiril in 
New Hampshire. Dr. Hall's successful pastorate of 
more than fourteen \-ears, continues with unabated 
harmony and strength. During this time a beauti- 
ful and commodious chapel has been erected at an 



CH.\RI.KS (IREENfll-'.l.l). 

financial has made his word as good as his bond. 
In politics he has always been a strong Republican, 
but has ever refused public office. Mr. Greenfield 
was married July 5, 1846, to Aroline B, Downs. 
They have six children living: Millie A., John, 
Ella S., Sarah K.. Hattie A., and Frank (ireentield. 



HALL. C.KORCE EliWARt), D. D.. Pastor of the 
First church in Dover, was born in Jamaica, West 
Indies. I'ebruary 23, 1851, son of the Reverend 
Henian li. and .Sophronia (Brooks) Hall. In the 
paternal line he traces his descent froni John Hall 
of Medford, Massachu.setts, an emigrant from Fng- 
land, who was born in 1627 ; through Percival, 
C"ambridge, Massachusetts, born in 1672 ; Stephen, 
Medford, Massachusetts, born in i 701) ; Samuel R., 
Sutton, Massachusetts, born in 1755; Josiah B.. 
Croyden, New Hampshire, born in 1790; Henian 

B., Guildhall, \'ermont, born in 1823 ; George Kd- expense of more than thirteen thousand dollars, 
ward Hall was the eldest of eight children. He The church in 1895 voted Dr. Hall six months" 
was fitted for college al the preparatory school in vacation to \isit Fgypt and tlu- Holy Land, and a 
Oberlin, Ohio, and graduated from Oberlin College further manifestation of regard was a testimonial 
in 1872, beginning the study of theology in Vale by vohmtar)' gifts of eight hundred dollars, pre- 




HKORCE K. HAl.l. 



MKN Ol' I'ROCRKSS. 



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sented to him on the u\x- uf his ilei.iaiturc. lie lias 
been live times a delegate to the National Council 
of Congregational Churches, and has been elected, 
for the sixth time, to the Tenth 'i'riennial .Session 
of the Council at Portland, Oregon, July 7-1:!, 1S98. 
He was chosen a Trustee and one of the executive 
committee of the New llam|)shire Home Mission- 
ary Society in 1895, and still retains the position. 
He was elected a corporate member of the Ameri- 
can ISoaid of Conuuissioners for foreign Missions 
in 1897. He receixed the degree of I )octoi" of I )i- 
vinity from l)artmouth College in i<S93. ll\(om- 
mission ol (loNernor |ohn 11. .Smith. Dr. ilall was 
appointed in 1S94 Chaplain of the First Kegiment 
of the New Hampshire National (juard, a ])osition 
he now liolds. He hetame amemlierof the S( hool 
Committee in l)o\ei' in 1897. l>r. Hall has lieen a 
member of the W'inthrop (lub of lloston since 
1892. antl of the Mondav Cluh of lloston since 
1896. He married Alice Monroe, daughter of the 
late James Monroe Peabody of Lowell, Massachu- 
setts. Her mother. Miriam |,. was the daughter of 
Joseph Niles of Chester, New Hampshire. Mrs. 
Hall died April 6, 1883, leaving two children, Alice 
.Miriam and Henry Monroe. 1 )r. Hall married 
April i(), 1890, Klizabeth Kneeland, daughter of 
the late William McFarland of Salem, Massachu- 
setts, whose father was the Re\'. Asa Mcharland, 
I). I)., of Concord, New Hampshire. Her mother 
was Susan Dorothy, daughter of Aaron Perkins of 
Salem, Massachusetts, lly his second marriage he 
has two children. John McParland and Ceorge 
William Hall. 



HAYES, John Alkrkd, Physician and Surgeon, 
Soniersworth, was born in iierwick, Maine, March 
27, 1S39, son of Frederick and Sara (Hurd) Hayes. 
On the paternal side he is of Scotch-Irish descent, 
on the maternal of English ; and among his ances- 
tors were man\' who possessed in a marked degree 
the characteristics of these stocks. He attended 
the common schools of Iierwick, West Lebanon 
Academ)-, West Lebanon, Maine, and the New 
Hampton Institution. He began the study of med- 
icine in 1868, his preceptor being Dr. [. .S. Ross. 
He took three courses of lectures at D.utnKiUth 
.Medical College and |efferson Medical College. 
Philadelphia, being graduated from Dartmouth 
Medical College in j 86 1 . He began the practice 
of his profession in the New Hampshire Insane 
Asylum at Concord, as .Assistant Physician. There 
he rem. lined from the autumn ol rSCii, until Ani-ust 



2(1. 1862. when he entered the army as Assistant 
Surgeon of the Eleventh New Hampshire X'olun- 
teers, and was subsequently made Surgeon of the 
regiment. Di'. Hajes saw some \ery acti\e ser\ice 
and p,irtici])ated in the b.iltles of Frederirksliurg. 





J. A. H.WES. 

Vicksburg, Jackson, the siege of Kno.wille, W'ildei- 
ness, .Spotts\i\-ania. North Anna. Cold ll.irbor, Pet- 
ersburg, Poplar Spring ( hurch, Weldon Kaihoad. 
Hatcher's Run, Sailor's Creek, and the engagements 
until the surrender of Lee at .Appomattox. He had 
charge of the .Second Division, Ninth .\iinv Corps, 
I''ield Hospital at I*'redericksburg, White House and 
City Point about eight months : and he alsr) had 
charge of the Piovisional Camp at .Alexandria. \ ir- 
ginia, after the surrender .it .\iipomattox. The 
cam]5 contained .diout se\enteen thousand invalid 
sokliers from llie \rm\- nl tJie Potomac .ind the 
y\riny of the ( 'uiiilieil.iud. Dr. f[a)es was bic\elteil 
Lieutenant-Colonel of Cnitetl .States X'ohmleers. 
March 13. iSd^. Im l.iilhtnl and nurilorions ser- 
vices upon the lollowiiiL; 1 e( (immend.ition : "This 
is to stale that Di. John A. Ilayes, lali' Surgeon of 
the F,le\enth New llam|)shire X'olunleers. seiAcd 
lor a year under luv immediate su|)er\ision in con- 
nection with the Depot Field Hospil.il of tiie .\rmy 
ol the PotniiKK . al 1 redei iikslnirg. White House 
.111(1 (it)' Point, and tiiiil lie finall)' ai ted as Iv\i'cu- 
tixL- officer at lliirke\ ille. \ir"inia. He w.is.i first- 



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MEN OF I'ROC.KKSS. 



r;\tc ofticcr and wns cntruslud with nuist respoiisil)lc 
duties, in the pcrfornKince of which lie was most 
reliable and untiring. I cordially recommend him as 
deserving tlie brevet of l,ieutenant-('olonel. (Signed) 
V.d. H. Dallon. late Surgeon, U. S. Volunteers, 
15revet Colonel, formerly in charge of Depot Field 
Hospital. .\rmv of the Potomac," .After the war. 
Dr. Hayes established himself in the practice of his 
profession in Hiddeford, .Maine, where he remained 
from the autunni of 1865 until 1S69. when he re- 
moved to .Somersworth, where he now resides. He 
was United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions 
from iiS67-'90, and served as Town Physician for 
lifteen years. He is a member of the Somersworth 
Medical Society, the New Hampshire Medical Soci- 
ety, and of the Grand .\rmy of the Republic. In 
politics he is a Republican. I )r. Hayes was mar- 
ried .March 11. 1S69. to Mary .\. Rollins. He has 
four children, Frederick L.. M. I)., John 1*'.. R.. 
Marv. and Helen L. Haves. 



HODSDON, Arthur Lvcurcu.s, President of the 
A. I,. Hodsdon Lumber Company, Center Ossipee, 
was born in that town, October 13, ICS44, son of 
Joseph and 1 )orcas (Govvell) Hodsdon. He is of 
English descent. His great-grandfather, Thomas 
Hodsdon of Berwick, Maine, who served in the 
Revolution as Captain of the Tenth (Fifth ]5er- 
wick) Company of the .Second York County Regi- 
ment, married Margaret (loodwin of Herwick, who 
bore him eight children: David, James, F^bene/.er, 
Ichabod, Mollie (Twombly), Sally (Ricker), and 
Peggy (Fogg). David, the eldest son, who settled 
on the old homestead in Berwick, took a prominent 
part in town and countv affairs and was one of the 
leaders in the .Methodist ( 'hiuch. His second sou. 
Joseph, born July 14, 1816, learned the tanning 
and currying business, and upon attaining his 
majority began business for himself at Center 
Ossipee. In this undertaking he was highl)" suc- 
cessful, his tannery becoming one of the largest 
and best in the country. He was active in politics 
as a Republican, and though he did not seek office, 
served two terms (i855-'57) in the New Hamp- 
shire Legislature; was interested in the militia, in 
which he held the rank of C'olonel ; was a Master 
Mason ; and was one of the firm supporters of the 
F'inst Congregational Church of Ossipee, of which 
he was for thirty-three years a Deacon, and for 
over forty years Superintendent of its Sunday- 



educated in the |)ul)lic schools of Ossipee and the 
Academies at Effingham, New ILampshire, and 
Fryebiirg, Maine, At the age of twenty-one he 
went into business with his father in the manufac- 
ture of leather, also engaging in the lumber trade. 
In 1881 he discontiiuied his tannery ; and in 1887 
he was elected President of the Pine River Lumber 
Company, Two years later he bought out the 
company, reorganizing it as the A. L. Hodsdon 
Coni|)any. of which he remains President and 
Agent. In politics he is a Republican. He has 
been a member of the State Committee for twelve 
years, and for many years he has been chairman of 
the Town Committee. He was elected to the State 




A. I.. HOUSKDN. 

Senate in iSqc-'qi. He is a Mason, Odd Fellow, 
and Knight of Pythias. Mr. Hodsdon married, 
Septentber 4, 1870, Charlotte M,, daughter of Dr, 
Nathaniel and Charlotte S, (Hobbs) Grant of 
Ossipee. They ha\e three children: Dr. Walter 
(}rant, Herbert .\rthur. and .Marv Ellen Hodsdon. 



school. He died April 



1S97. Arthur L. 



Hod.sdon. his second child and eldest son, was 



JONES, John Fr.\nklin, Banker, Concord, was 
born in Hopkinton, March 31, 1835, ^°" °f Jona- 
than and Sarah (Currier) Jones, He is a grand- 
son of Jonathan Jones, a well-known resident of 
Ho.scawen, On the maternal side he can trace his 
descent from Richard Currier, one of the original 
settlers of Salisbury, born in 161 7 and died in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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16S7. Mr. |oiiL-s attenclcd the common schools at 
Hopkinton and Hopkinton Academy. He lived on 
the home farm until he was fifteen years old, when 
he was stricken with illness. He was an invalid 
for six years, but at the ai,^e of twenty-two went to 
Massachusetts, and took a position in a drug store. 
This business not agreeing with him, he returned 
to Hopkinton, where he worked in a general coun- 
try store until 1861. when he opened a store in 
Contoocook, in compan\' with R. T. C'rowell, and 
did a successful Inisiness until 1S67, when, his 
health again failing, he sold out his interest to his 
partner. From 1867 to 1885 he lived in Contoo- 
cook, acting as Justice and settling estates. In 



.■'*'€ 




JOHN F. JONES. 

1885 he was elected Treasurer of tiie Foan and 
Trust Savings Hank, a position he held until 1897, 
when he resigned and was elected I'resident of the 
same bank, a post he now holds. In the twenty- 
five years he lived in ("ontoocook he settled over 
forty estates, and acted as Commissioner and Trus- 
tee in the settlement of a number of others. He 
was Town Clerk in Hopkinton from 1861 to 1868, 
and again served in that office in 1875. He was 
Town Treasmer from 1861 to 1866, and again held 
this ofifice in 1S72. He was a member of the State 
Con.stitutional Convention in 1876. Among the 
other offices he has held are : Treasurer of Merri- 
mack county; Park Conuuissioner of Cont:ord ; 



1 )irector of the h'irst National ISankof Hillsljorough, 
i874-'90 inclusive ; Director of the National State 
Capital Rank of Concord from 1881 to date; 'Prus- 
tee to the Loan and 'Prust Savings Bank from 
1874 to date; Treasurer of the New Hampshire 
Antiquarian Society, i872-'97, and President for 
two years ; Treasurer of the \\'oodsum Steamboat 
Company from its organization in 1872 to date; 
Treasurer of the Manufacturers' and Merchants' 
Mutual Insurance Compan\' of (_'oncord from its 
organization in 18S6 to the present time. He is a 
member of Kearsarge Lodge, Independent ( )rder 
of ( )dd h'ellows of Contoocook; of ISlazing Star 
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; 'Prinity Chap- 
ter, Royal Arch Masons ; Horace Chase Council 
and Mt. Horeb Conunandery of Concord, being its 
Treasurer since 1891 ; Edward A. Raymond Con- 
sistory of Nashua ; New Hampshire Historical 
Society; and New Hampshire Antiquarian Society. 
He is a member of the First ISaptist Cluuxh of 
Hopkinton and of the \'oung Men's Christian 
Association of C(jncord. He married ( )ctober 23, 
1861, Maria H. Barnard. He has two children, 
J. Arthur and Charles C. Jones. 



KFN'P, Hervey, Retired Manufacturer, Exeter, 
was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, in April, 
1818, son of Captain Asa and Polly (Aljel) Kent. 
His grandfather on the paternal side, Isaac Kent, 
removed from Connecticut to Alstead, where he 
died in 1833, at the age of ninety-two years. He 
was a very energetic man, and at seventy-five was 
as vigorous as most men at fifty. He was married 
four times. ( )n the maternal side, he is descended 
from the Reverend Alfred Abel, who lived to the 
good old age of ninety-three. 'Phe subject of this 
sketch attended the public schools of his natix'e 
town and local academy, working on the farm after 
teaching school in the winter. He remained on the 
farm until nearly twent)'-one years old, and h;ul his 
first experience in manufacturing in the Nashua 
Mills in 1839, receiving three dollars a week as 
wages. Soon after, he went with one ot the iner- 
seers, Benjamin Osgood, to the first mill started on 
the Stark corporation in Manchester, New Ihimp- 
shire, ;\s third hand in the spiiuiing-room, ;nKl was 
adxanced to the position of Second Overseer. 
When Superintendent Amory Warren went from 
the Stark Mills to Newton Ppper P'alls Mills as 
Agent, he employed Mr. Kent to go with him as 
Overseer of the spinning, and there he remained 
four years, removing to i'ilchburg, where he hired 



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MEX (IF PROGRESS. 



a small mill called the Kockvillc. He started the 
mill on a live years' lease in 1845, and was very 
successful until the tariff changes largely reduced 
the ))n>tits. In 1847 he sold out his interest in the 
Rock\ille Mill to his partner, to accept a position 
with John Smith, as Superintendent and Paymaster 
at liarre, Massachusetts. I.eaxing this business at 
the close of one year, he accepted a position as 
Overseer of s|3inning under General H. K. Oliver 
of the Atlantic Mills, of Lawrence, Massachusetts. 
There he remained imtil 1854, when he became Su- 
perintendent of the Great I''alls Mills of Somersvvorth 
imder John A. liurleigh. He remained there until 
the hard times of 1857 led to a reduction in the out- 
put of the mills. He was out of business for some 
months when he went to Pittstield, as Agent of the 
mills controlled by the Dale Brothers of Boston. 
Then he went to 1-ew iston, Maine, as Superintendent 
of the Androscoggin Mills under Agent Amos G. 
Lockwood, and was there nearly two years, leaving 
that place to accept the Agency of the Exeter Mills 
under the Dale Brothers & Gompany. He held 
the Agency until 1876, when he became Treasurer 




UKRVKV KKNT, 

and Agent, which he held until May, 1895, when he 
resigned in favor of his son, George E. Kent, who 
has since bought the Pittsfiekl Mill. George K. 
Kent is manager of both concerns. The Exeter 
Manufacturing Gompany having leased the Pitts- 



tield .Mill. Mr. Kent retires with connnendable 
pride at the results of his thirty-three years" man- 
agement. When he took charge of the Exeter Mill, 
the Gompany had not paid a dividend for eleven 
years. The stock was sold for two hundred dollars, 
par six lunidred and fifty dollars. The second 
year the Gompany paid fifty dollars per share, and 
continued the same for some thirteen years. The 
mill, originally, had two hundred thirty-six-inch 
looms, with mostly old machinery. When he 
retired, he left lUvw a mill of six himdred forty- 
inch looms, with a large proportion of the machin- 
ery new, up-to-date, modern mill, which has run 
when other mills have been closed. In 1897. Mr. 
Kent was chosen President of the Exeter Manufac- 
turing Gompany. which position he now holds. He 
is a member of Philips Ghurch. in which he has 
been a Deacon for about thirty years. He is a 
Mason and an Odd Fellow, and at one time a 
member of the New Hampshire Glub. and of the 
Textile and New England Manufacturing Associa- 
tion. He has never been active in politics. He 
married, in 1S41, Eliza Jane Hanson of Derry, 
New Hampshire. His children are: (leorgia L., 
I'.nnna |., Gora L., and George Edward Kent, of 
whom Gora and George survive. Mr. Kent is now 
over eightv vears old. and he says he has never 
enjoyed life more keenly than at the present time. 
He may be seen at his old desk one half the time, 
but gives no orders, and is, practically, retired. 
He firmly believes in the over-ruling hand of God"s 
special Providence, and that it is not in man to 
direct his steps. .At his age, the future begins to 
dawn with hope growing brighter day by day, " as 
the truer life grows brighter every year." 



KF.NXF.rT. .\i.PHKirs Guosr.v, State Senator, 
Gonway, was horn in Madison, New !Iani]3shire, 
luly 27, 1859. son of William and Sarah I'.aslnian 
(Russell) Kennett. The Kennett family traces its 
descent from St. Gregory's Kent, who was de- 
scended from the Royal House of Ganute of Den- 
mark, and settled upon the demesne of Rolla of 
Normandy in the \'ar de Saire of that Dukedom. 
.\t the time of the conquest, he went over to Eng- 
land in the suite of William the First. Two knights 
of the family set sail in 1647 ^or the Province of 
\'irginia. .Mr. Kennett attended the town schools 
of Madi.son and New Hampton Institute. His 
boyhood was passed on a farm, but at seventeen 
he went to work for the Eastern Railroad as tele- 
graph operator. He was elected Representative to 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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the Legislature in 189S ''"'I icS<)6; was State Sen- pal of the lliewslei" l'"iee Atacieiii)- at W'olfhoro, 
ator in iSijj and uSijS. lie has rank of Colonel New Hampshire. Mr. Lord was one of the pioneers 
in Governor RanisdelTs stalf. hi politics he is a in the field for the direct apjilication of electricity 
Republican. ( 'olonel Keuuett married .\pril 13. h>r many purposes for which it is now commonly 
1S82. Carrie I!, (lerrish of South ISerwick, Maine. used. The cit\' of Lawrence was the first in the 

world to li.ne its streets lighted wholly by elec- 
tricit\- to the e.xilusion of ,i;as and oil. The Daily 
American of that i it\-. G. S. .Merrill. f-",ditor, was tiie 
first daily |xiper in the world to be published by 
electric power, while the I'emberton Mills had the 
lirst electric height ele\ator. .\ll of these were 
installed bv -Mr. Lord. It is, howe\er, as an educa- 
tor that Mr. Loid h.is done his best work. His suc- 
cess as an instructor in the Lowell High School 
soon caused him to be sought by the Lawrence 
school committee as I'rinciiial ot the High .'school 
in that cit}', the offer coming without any solicita- 
tion on his part. During the few years that he held 
his position he won the good will of scholars, 
teachers and citizens, for the many qualities which 
are necessar)' for a successful High School Frinci- 
[jal. In 18S7, when the l.rewster Free Academy 
of W'olfboro, New Hampshire, was opened, under 




.\. CROSIIV KENNETT. 



who died ( )ctober i, iSiSj ; October 31, iS.S.S, he 
married Lora Ferren of Madison. He has one son, 
F'rank Eddison Kennett, born October 22. 1897. 




L()RD, EnwiN Howaro, Educator and I'.lectri- 
cian, was born in .Springvale, Maine, June i, 1850, 
son of Samuel and Sophia Hight (Smith) Lord. On 
the paternal side he traces his descent from the 
Lord family of South Berwick, Maine. Mr. Lord 
attended the common schools of Spring\.ile, and 
.South fierwick .Academy for two terms, then going 
to New Hampton Academy for three terms. He 
was graduated from fJowdoin College in 187 i, with 
the degree of .\. !>., and took the degree of .\. M.. 
from Har\ard College, graduating in the class (pf 
1881. I'rom 1871 to 1873 he was Principal ol 
Richmond. .M.iine, High School: from 1873 to 
1880 he was teacher of .Science in the Lowell. 
Massachusetts, High School; from 18S0 to [884 he 
was princi|)al of the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High 




i:iiwi\ II. i.(iKi>. 



the pro\isions of the will of the late lolin lliewster 
of ( 'amluidiic, .Massachusetts, the Trustees, not 



School; from 1S82 to 1886 he was 'J'reasurer and having decided upon a ])ermanent Principal, asked 
Manager of the l'',dison l^lectric Ilhuninating Com- him to become Acting Principal for a few years, 
pany of Lawrenie, .Since 1S87 he has been Princ i- He organized the school, and conducted it with 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



such s;Uisfaclii>n tn the TrUNlcL-s lluit in a sliorl 
lime he was conhnncd as Principal without any 
time limit. This academy, unique in many 
respects, is a credit to the e.\ecuti\e ability of its 
I'rincipal. Open to both sexes, it presents many 
problems in government which only a clear head 
and an impartial mind cuuld solve. The rules are 
very few. and few of them are laid down in words. 
The spirit of the institution demands that the pupils 
shall l)e ladies and gentlemen, and whatever con- 
flicts with those standards is to be disapproved. 
Little espionage, that horror of the average scholar, 
is employed, ca.ses of discipline are few, and the 
tone of the school always gives a stranger the im- 
pression that the students are there for study, pri- 
maril)-. ami that incidentally, they all manage to 
have a good time, without detriment to school work. 
He is a Vice-President of the Sons of Nathan Lord. 
He is a member of the Kilwinning Lodge, Ancient 
• Free and Accepted Masons ; of the Club, Lowell; 
of the Monday Night Club, Lawrence, and Lowell 
Lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 
ixilitics he is a Republican. Mr. Lord was married 
luK'. 1S73, to Adclie M. Decker, of Brunswick, 
Maine, who died in October, 1873. Mr. Lord was 
again married November, 1877. to juli.i Swift Ben- 
nett of Lowell, Massachusetts. He has three chil- 
dren, Ada leanette. Willi. im Swift, and Mary I!en- 
nett Lord. 



Ll'.WANDO, Joseph, Merchant, Wolfboro, was 
born in P.oston, Massachusetts, December 3, 1850, 
son of Adolph and Fniily (Smith) Lewando. He 
received his early education in the Highland Mil- 
itarv ."Vcadeniy, in Worcester, Massachusetts, and 
attendetl the Chemical Department of the Lawrence 
Scientific School, Cambridge, during the years 
1869 and 1870. His father had established at 
Watertown, Massachusetts, the Lewando Dye 
Works, for the supervision and charge of which the 
son was trained. In 1870 he took charge and held 
the position for live years, when the business not 
being to his liking, he removed to Mt. Tabor, Ore- 
gon, where he engaged in general merchandise for 
eight years, establishing the first store in that place. 
He conducted a most successful business, and was 
largely interested in real estate in the town. In 
1879, he established the postoflice at Mt. Tabor, 
receiving his appointment from Postmaster-General 
Key. In 1883, he returned to the East and settled 
in Wolfboro, where he conducts a general bus- 
iness. He served for three years in the New- 



Hampshire National Guard as Captain of Com|).iny 
K, I'hird Regiment. He was a member of the 
Legislature in 1897, when he was t'hairman of the 
Committee on Mileage, and a member of the 
CoMunittee on I'.anks. In politics Mr. Lewando is a 




JOSEPH LEW.\NI:)0. 

Kepulilican. He was an alternate to the Conven- 
tiiin at Minneapolis in 1S92. During the past 
twelve years he has held various offices in his 
adopted town. He is a member of Morning Star 
Lodge, No. 17, .Ancient F'ree and Accepted Masons, 
of Carroll ChajHer. No. 23, Royal .\rch Masons, 
and of St. Paul Commandery, Knights Templar, 
Dover, New Hampshire. Mr. Lewando was mar- 
ried September 10. 1S75. to Nellie j. Morgan. They 
have two children, Alice ('.. and Dolph l.i'wando. 



.\li:i,\ ll.LF,. Henuv, Lawyer. New York city, 
was born in Nelson. New Hampshire, Aiigu.st 25, 
1858, son of Josiah Henry and Nancy Rebecca 
(Nesmith) Melville. His ancestors on his father's 
side were among the first settlers of Charlestown, 
Massachusetts, and on his mother's among the 
founders of Londonderry, New Hampshire. The 
fighting qualities of the stock from which he comes 
are shown by the fact that he is a member of the 
Sons of the Revolution by virtue of descent from 
Privates Josiah Melvin (Melville) Sr., and Josiah 
Melvin (Melville) Jr., of Concord, Massachusetts; 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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Captain Jonas Miimt and CulonL-l janies Rarrrtt of 
Concord, MassacluiscUs ; I'rivate |anit.-s Nesmitii 
and Sergeant Adam Dickcv of Londonderry; and 
Pri\atc Josiah W'liitnew Ir.. and lirigadier-General 
Josiah Whitney, Sr., of ll.uxard, Massachusetts; 
while he is a menilier of the Society of Colonial 
Wars liy descent from Captain Thomas lirooks, 
Ca]it.iin Jonas Prescott, Ca]itain |<inas I'rescott, 
2nd., (.'aplain 'rinintln- Wheeler, Captain James 
Gregg, Captain James Minol, Colonel James ]!ur- 
rett, Lieutenant-Cohinel [(jsiah \\hitne\-, Seigeant 
Jcseph Houston, John Piescotl. Adam Mickey, and 
John .\Iel\in (MeKillei. He was litted for college 
by the Rew Iose|)h .\. Leach of Keene, and was 
graduated from M.utmoulh in 1S71). I'or twn 
years he was princi|).d of the High .School at W'in- 
chendon, Massachusetts, and then spent three years 
in the LLir\ard Law School, lieing graduated with 
the degrees of A. AL and LL. 1!. cum laude in 
1884. Going to \ew \'ork he entered the oftice of 
James C. Carter, the leailer of the New \drk liar. 
He was admitted to the liar in 1885, and in that 
year formed business relations with Roscoe Conk- 



-^f 




IIKNRV MKI.VII.I.K. 

ling which (ontinued imtil .Mr. Conkling's dcalli in 
1888. He was a member of the law linn of llough- 
erty, Melville iV Sweetser until the de;ith of Daniel 
Dougherty. His present lirm is MeKille. .Martin & 
Stephens of 120 llroadwaw .Mr. McKilh' m.d^es a 



specialty of corpor.uidn, patent anil tr.ule-mark 
causes, and has tigured in some \ er\- impnrt.int 
cases. He enlisted in the Seventh Regiment 
Naticm.d Guard of New ^'ork in iSScj, and at 
present is C,iptain of Compau}- A, I'jghth Regi- 
ment. The state volunteered his Company, and 
they have gone to the front in the present w.ir. He 
is a member of the Hartmouth ,\huuni .\sso(. i.itiim. 
lLir\anl Club, La\wcrs' Club, .\ss(ici,ition of the 
liar. l'ni\ersity Club, Republican Club, .Society of 
i\Iedic.d Juris|)i-iidence, New I'aigland Society, and 
( >rdei" of the l''ounders and 1 )efenders, as well as 
the two patriotic societies inentioned above. In 
politics he is a Republican. 



NIL1<',S. WiM.rvM W'liookrr f, (Protestant I'",pis- 
cop.d ) bishop of New Hampshire, Concord, was 
born in Hatle_\. Lo\\ei- Canada (now the Province 
of (^)uebec). May 24, 1833. son of Daniel Swit and 
Delia (Woodruff) Niles. His father's family is said 
to ha\e been oiiginall)' Irish, his ancestors having 
been carried away captives to Wales about 1172, 
liecause of their refusal to sulimit to tlie English 
rule in Ireland. John Niles (then spelled Niel 
commonly, though oiiginall\- in Ireland Nials) 
came to New I'.ngland in 1634. ]''i'om him l!isho|3 
Niles is descended in the seventh generation. Wil- 
liam Woodruff, his mother's father, married Ruth 
Porter of ]"'armington, Connecticut, who was in the 
fifth generatiim from Rol">ert Porter, one of the 
settlers of l"'arinington, from which Robert w.is also 
ilescended Noah Porter, the late Presitlent of \ale 
L'niversity. The Purters appear originallv to ha\'e 
lived in England at Wro.xall .\bbev, and in llatton 
and Haseley. in Warwickshire. Willi.im W. .Niles 
attended the Chariest) m Acidemv in Hatley and 
Derby /Vcademy in Veiinont, but he studied l.irgely 
alone in a beautiful countrv. with books to read 
and suggestions from a highl)- intelligent fatluT .nid 
mother. His home was deep in the country, two 
miles from a village even, and the bov found his 
surroundings admirablv litted for medilatidn. 
Later on he hatl the e.xperiences of •■ keeping 
school " and •■ boai'ding aroimd " for liv e terms 
before going to college ; and those afforded hiui as 
a tutor in college for a year after graduation, .nid 
as a teacher for two years in the Hartford High 
.School. A fiuther useful pari (if the' training for 
active life was. no doubt, the hal:>it in Liter v'lUlh 
and early manhood of mingling nuich with people, 
and largel}' with peisoirs having very v.nied notions, 
leligidus and politic;d. lie was gi.uluated from 



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MEN OF PROGRKSS. 



Trinity College, Hartford, in 1857, and from of the Orphans" Home at Concord, and the New- 
Berkeley Divinity School in 1861 ; was ordained England Episcopal member of the Board of Mana- 
Deacon by Dr. Williams, Bishop of Connecticut, in gers of Domestic and Foreign Missions at New 
1 86 1, and ordained Priest by Dr. George Burgess, York. He was a member of the Committee of the 
Bishop of Maine, in .May. 1862. He was Rector General Convention for revision of the list of chap- 
ters of Scripture to be read in church ; of the Com- 
mittee of revision of the Prayer Book and of 
that for the revision of marginal readings in the 
Bible, fiishop Niles was married in St. John's 
Church. Flartford, June 5, 1862, to 15ertha Olmsted, 
a descendant from James Olmsted, one of the 
settlers of Hartford. His children are : John 
Olmstead, Edward Cullen, Mary, William Porter, 
Daniel Swit, and Bertha Niles. 




WILLIAM W. .\U,L.■^. 

of St. Philips Church at Wiscasset. Maine, for three 
years; then Professor in Latin in Trinity College 
for si,\ years. For the last three of the.se years, 
and when he was elected Bishop of New Hamp- 
shire, he was also Rector of St. John's Church at 
Warehouse Point. He was for a time editor of the 
Churchman. He was consecrated Bishop in St. 
Paul's Church. Concord, on St. Matthew's Day in 
1870, by the Presiding Bishop, Dr. B. B. Smith and 
by the P.ishops of Connecticut. Maine, and Albany. 
Dr. 1. \\ . Williams, liishop of Quebec, joining in 
the laying on of hands. Bishop Niles received the 
degree of Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College 
in 1870, and later the same degree from Dart- 
mouth, and from Trinity the degree of Doctor of 
Laws in 1896. While in college he was a member 
of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Fie is President of the 
corporation of St. Paul's School in Concord ; St. 
Mary's School for Girls in Concord; of Holderness 
School for Boys, Plymouth, New Hampshire; a 
Trustee of Trinity College, and of the General 
Theological Seminary in New York ; for many 
years President of the Alumni Association of the 
Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown ; President 



AL\CK, Wii.Li.\M ]iA.RKER, Physician, E.xeter, 
was born in Bellows Falls, Yermont, January 26, 
iSc;2, son of William V. and Elizabeth .\. (Barker) 




WILLIAM B. MACK. 

Mack. He comes of good old New England stock. 
He was educated in the common schools of Bellows 
Falls, and at Norwich (Yermont) Academy and 
Dartmouth College. In 1874 he entered Dart- 
mouth Medical College, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1877. In 1S78 he opened an office in 
Dover, New Hampshire, and practiced there two 
years, when he removed to Salmon Falls, New- 
Hampshire. After remaining there for eight years, 
he went to Exeter, where he has remained mitil the 
present time. He is one of the Attending Physi- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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cians of the Exeter Cottage Hospital. In politics 
he is a RepubHcan. In iSSi, Dr. Maciv married 
Evelyn M. Dennett. They ha\e one son: Walter 
Barker Mack, fourteen vears of age. 



MrrCHELL, Ai;ram Whittemore, Physician, 
Epping, was born in Lenipster, New Hampshire, 
February 8, 1.S62, son of Andrew ]. and Mary M. 
(\Miittemore) Mitchell. His paternal grandfather 
was William Mitchell of Acworth, New Hampshire, 
and his maternal grandfather, Amos Whittemore of 
Wilton, New Hampshire. He received his early 
education in the district and High schools of his 
native town and in the Newport High School. 
During this time he worked on his father's farm 
and taught in the district schools until he entered 
the Kimball L^nion Acadeniv, Meriden, New Hamp- 
shire, where he spent one year and was graduated 
in i8<S3. Subsequentlv he was Superintendent of 
Schools and Principal of the High School at Lenip- 
ster and Principal of Marlow Academy. From the 
time of his graduation until the fall of 1885, he 
studied medicine \\ith Dr. Carl A. Allen of Acworth 




.\1!R.\M W. MI roll KI, I.. 

and Dr. .Marshall Perkins of Marlow. lie then 
spent one year in the .Medical College of liurlington, 
X'ermont, and one in the Medical Department of the 
University of New ^'ork, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1S87. He attended the Post-graduate Medi- 



cal School of New York from ( )ctol)er to December 
in 1895. After practicing medicine and surgery at 
Harrisville, New Hampshire, from April, 1887, to 
April in the following year, he removed to lipping 
where he has since remained. He is Physician to 
Rockingham County Asylum, Almshouse and Jail 
at Brentwood. He was a member of the State 
Legislature in 1897. He is a Mason, a member of 
Sullivan Lodge, and an Odd Fellow, member of 
Geneva Lodge. Dr. Mitchell is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Epping. Jn politics 
he is a Democrat. On October 17, 1888, he was 
married to Ihittie F. Perkins of Marlow. They 
have three children : Avis W., Karl P. and 
Richard A. Mitchell. 



NIMS, FR.4NCIS Orman, Real Estate and Lum- 
ber Dealer, Keene, was born in Sullivan, New 
Hampshire, January 10, 1846, son of Frederick B. 
and Harriet (Wardell) Nims. He comes of a 
family which has distinguished itself in the military 
service of the country. ( )n the paternal side his 
great-grandfather. Colonel White, served in the 
Revolutionary War seven years. His father was 
for several years a Captain in the State Militia. An 
uncle. Colonel ( ). F. Nims of Boston, was com- 
mander of the famous Nims Battery before and 
during the K.ebellion. The subject of this sketch 
was educated in the common schools of Sullivan ; 
remained on his father's farm until he was twenty 
years of age ; served a year's clerkship in Keene, 
and with his brothers, G. H. and M. \\'. Nims, es- 
tablished a meat and pro\ision business which was 
conducted successfully until 18S4. Since then he 
has been a dealer in real estate and lumber. He 
is a large owner of propert\' in Keene and 
I\hirll.iorough. He has always taken a keen inter- 
est in military afl'airs. In 1877. when Company 
G, the city's tirst company, was formed in Keene, 
he was one of its original members, and he is now 
the only one remaining with a record of continuous 
service. In 1878 he was appointed Corporal, in 

1879 'Phird Sergeant and Second Sergeant, and in 

1880 First Sergeant. July 27, 1883. he became 
Second Lieutenant, and in December of the same 
year, h'irst I>ieutenant. July 24, 1884, he was 
elected Captain of the Company, which from 1884 
to 1889 had the highest rank of any company in 
the state. August i, i88g, he was connnissioned 
Major of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire 
National (kiards, of which he was Major live years. 
In August, 1891, Major Nims was detailed liy the 



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!\I1".X OF PROGRESS. 



Governor to comiiKiiicl the IJattalion, to attend and 
represent the state at the dedication of the Ben- 
nin<;ton liattle Monument. I le was commissioned 
Lieutenant-Colonel August 31, i^'jA- Colonel 
Ninis has received many compliments for guard 




FR.\NLIS <). NIMs. 

duty and efficiency in handling troops, and for 
the e.xcellence of discipline of his command. In 
politics he is a Democrat. For H\e years as Over- 
seer cif the I'oor of the city of Keene, his adminis- 
Ir.Uicin was marked liy judgment and economy. 
He married, in i.Syo, I'^lla L. ifall. daughter of 
Oliver and .Marietta (Watkins) Hall of Walpole, 



I'l K I'., Kdi'.Kkr CiDKiKiN, Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court of New Hampshire, Dover, was 
born in Kollinsford, New Hampshire. July 28, 1851, 
son of Amos W. aud I'.lizahcth \l. (Chadbourne) 
I'ike. On the paternal side he is descended from 
John I'ike, an emigrant from Kngland, who settled 
in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635. John Pike's 
great-great-grandson, the Reverend James Pike, 
preached his first sermon October 23, 1726, and in 
the following year began to preach to the people in 
that part of Dover, which in 1729 was set oiif to 
form the town of Somersworth. From the latter 
town, in 1S49, was set off the town of Kollinsford, 
wherein the meeting-house in which he preached 
was situated. He was ordained as the first Pa.stor 



of Somersworth, October 26. 1730 : and he preached 
his last sermon, October 31, 1790. Of his sons, 
Nicholas, a celebrated teacher, was graduated from 
Harvard in 1766, and was the author of a famous 
arithmetic. .Another son was John Pike, who w-as 
the great-grandfather of the sul)ject of this sketch. 
( )n his mother's side, Judge Pike traces his descent 
from Humphrey Chadbourne. who came to this 
country aliout 1631. and who died in 1666. He 
attended the connnon schools of Kollinsford. and 
Berwick .Academy at South Berwick, Maine, and 
then entered Dartmouth College in the Scientific 
Department, being graduated in 1872. Upon leav- 
ing college, he engaged in civil engineering, and 




kdiacRr (;. I'ike. 



was one of the surveying party who ran the lines of 
the Dover and Portsmouth Railroad, in 1873. ^^^ 
was an Assistant Fngiiieer on the Waltham Water 
Works con.struction, and in 1874 entered the office 
of Shedd & Sawyer, civil engineers, in Boston. He 
taught the three following years in a South Berwick 
C.rannnar School, beginning the study of law in 
1878. with the late Chief Ju.stice Doe. He was 
admitted to the Bar of the State Courts in March, 
1 88 1. and to the Bar of the Circuit Court of the 
United States in November, 1894. Immediately 
upon his admission to the Bar in 1881, he began 
practice at Dover. He was appointed Judge of the 
Probate Court for Strafford county, the appoint- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



7' 



menl takiny- effect December 2,S. 1.S93. and was 
City Solicitor in iSSj-'Sg, and for two months in 
1893. He was appointed Associate |nstice of tiie 
Supreme C'onrt of tlie State April 14. iSgG. l''rom 
1S77 to iSS^ he was Snperintendent of Schools 
in Rollinsford, antl then declineil a re-appointment. 
He was Trnstee of Strafford Sa\inL;s Hank (orij,'- 
inally known as Sax'ings Hank lor the County of 
Strafford) from 1890 to July, i.S()(i. when he 
resigned the office. \\'hen the I )o\er Water Hoan.1 
was established, he served as a member tor a short 
time. He has been a Trustee of franklin Academy 
since September 1, icS,S3, and Treasurer Ironi Au- 
gust 5, 18S4. to August 5, i8()(>, when he resigned. 
For o\er two years he was a member of the School 
Hoard of the City of l)(iyei", de( hning a re-election. 
In politics he is a Repuljiican. 



PFASLEF, Benjamin Dhhok, I'hysician, Hills- 
borough Bridge, was liorn in Weare, New Hamp- 
shire. April 18, 1857, son of Robert and Persis 
Boardman (Dodge) Peaslee. He is a descendant 
of Joseph and Mar}' Peaslee, \vho came from Eng- 
land in 1638 and settled in Nevvbur\', Massachu- 



t 





Institution anil ,it the McCollom Institute, Mont 
X'ernon, New Hampshire. He pursued his profes- 
sional studies in the Boston I'niyersity Medical 
School, in the Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and in the New \'ork ( )phthalmic Col- 
lege and lIos]iitnl. In 1871), he began practice 
at Meredith, New Hampshire, and practiced for a 
time in Bradford and Concoid, New Hampshire, 
and Melrose, Massachusetts. ]'\iy two years he was 
Superintendent of the dr\-goods house of Hough- 
ton tV Dutton, lliislon, Massachusetts, ( )wing to 
ill health, he was obliged t(j gi\e up active practice 
and business life, ami now resides in Hillsborough 
Bridge, and (le\dtes his time to special work of the 
eye and eai', being obliged to spend the winters in 
the South. He is a lo\er of fuie horses and of all 
outdoor sports, es|)eci,ill\- tiout fishing, and is well 
acquainted with all the brooks in the \icinit\'. He 
is a member of Melrose ( lub, of Melrose, Massa- 
chusetts, and of the New Ilampshire Medical So- 
ciety. He is a M.ison, a memlier of Harmony 
Lodge No. 38, and of Woods Chapter No. 14, 
Royal Arch Masons. I )i\ Peaslee was married 
Februai)- 11, 1880, to .'Mice M. Hammond, antl 
|ime II, 1889, to Hattie Dutton. He has one son: 
Karl Hammond Peaslee, born |anuary 7, 1881. 



lUiNJ.y.Ml.X II, I-h.ASI.KK. 



RP"A'N( )LDS. Thomas ( )sc.oi Ml. I'h\sit ian, Kings- 
ton, was born in Chester, New Hampshire, Decem- 
ber 24, 1842, son of 'I'homas F. .ind .Mary (Currier) 
Reynolds. His ancestors came to this countr\' 
from the north of England. lie received his early 
education in the pulilic sihools and .Academy at 
Chester. He spent three \ears and a half in the 
Ami}', the last two and a h.ilf in the Medical De- 
partment, acting as clerk, steward, cadet, and for 
seven months as Assistant-Surgeon on the Freed- 
man's Bureau. In the lourse ol his |irotessional 
studies he attended I.ong Island Medical College, 
Brooklyn ; Bellevue Medical College, New York 
city ; and Albany Medi( al ( '<illege. from which he 
was graduated December 24, i8(>fj. He travelled 
extensively in the West and South, but in 1870 set- 
tled in Kingston, where he has siiue remained. He 
was a 'Frustee of Kingston Acadeni}- for h\e years 
in the "So's, being President of the lioard one year. 
He is a Director of a Western Re.il F.state ( 'om- 



setts. Jose]5h Peaslee was a plnsician of much |)an\' and of an extensive bookcoiuein in Poston. 
repute, and was the first (Jn.ikc-r pri-.Khci, whose In war time he w.is made a Fic'e M.ison in Fjii 
influence resulted in the formalion (jf tin- lirst Lodge, Kentucky, and since 1871 has been a mem- 
Society of I-'riends in i''i53. Dr. Peaslee received l:>er of (lideon Lodge. .\n< ient Free and .\( 1 epted 
his education in the .New ll.iiiiplon Literary Masons. Kingston, in whiili lie li.is held v.irioiis 



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MEN OI' PROGRESS. 



offices, liaving; bcL'ii Worshipful Master in 1.S79. 1880, 
and 1881. He is a member of St. Albans Royal 
Arch Chapter of Exeter. Past Commander of Cen- 
eral Patten Post, Crancl Army of the Republic of 
Kingston, and a member of P.urnside command. 




THOMAS (). KEYNDLDS. 

Union Veteran Union, of Haverhill, Massachusetts. 
He is a Republican. July 13. 1870, he married M. 
Fanny Smith of Raymond. 'I'hey have one daugh- 
ter : Mabel, born Mays, 'S71. Dr. Reynolds has 
been in active practice for thirty-one years, and is 
about to retire. He has written considerably on 
microscopy and astronomy for scientific magazines. 



SARGENT, Harry Gi.:nk, City Solicitor, Con- 
cord, was born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, Sep- 
tember 30, 1859, son of Samuel Merrill and Cyrene 
(Mitchell) Sargent, His father was for many years 
an engineer on the Concord Railroad. On the 
paternal side he traces his ancestry to William 
Sargent, son of Richard .Sargent, barrister-at-law in 
London, England, born in 1C102. William was 
appointed Midshipman in the navy, and in 1614 
sailed with Captain John Smith to Jamestown. Wr- 
ginia. He left Virginia and went to Massachu- 
setts; the exact date is not known, but his name 
appears in the Massachusetts Colony records for 
April, 1633. Harry Sargent attended the public 
schools of Concord and was graduated from the 



High School of tiiat city in Jmie. 1878. He studied 
law iti the office of W. '1'. iV H. F. Norris in 1878- 
'79. He attended the lioston I'niversity Law School 
in 1879- 'So, and again read in the office of J. Y. 
Mugridge in 1880- '81. He was admitted to the 
liar in 1S81. passing a highly creditable examina- 
tion, and liegan the practice of his profession in 
Concord. Jn Jul)-, 1893, he formed a partnership 
with Henry I-'. Hollis under the firm name of Sargent 
ev Hollis. and May 1. 1896. lulward C. Niles was 
added to the firm, which then became Sargent. Hol- 
lis iS: Niles, Mr. Sargent has had extensive practice 
before legislative committees and the various courts 
in New Hampshire. He was associated with Gen- 




ii. 1;. SARCENT. 

eral Wayne MacVeagh as counsel for Austin Corbin 
of New York before a committee of the legislature 
and in the Supreme Court in the matter relative to 
the state's interest in the Concord Railroad. Dur- 
ing the session of 1891 he made an argument in 
Representatives' Hall in opposition to the Mount 
Washington bill, and after that was counsel for 
Coe iS: Pingree in suits in the State and (^ircuit 
comts which involved the title to the sununit of 
Mount Washington. He served as County Solici- 
tor from January, 1885, to Januarv, 1887, and has 
l)een City .Solicitor of Concord from January, 1887, 
until the present time ; is a Trustee of tlie Margaret 
Pillsbury (General Hospital in Concord, and a 



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Trustee of the Protestant Kpiscopal Church in 
New Hampshire ; President of the Snowshoe Club, 
and a member of the Passaconaway Ckib. He 
married. December 14, iSSi, KHzabetli Dudley. 
Thev ha\-e one daughter: Margaret Dudley Sar- 
gent, born June 10. 1883. 



R( )1J,INS, Frank \\'F,sr. Lawyer and lianker of 
Concord, was born in Concortl, New Hampshire, 
February 24. i860, son of luhvard Henry and Fllen 
(West) Rollins. His family has lieen prominent in 
the affairs of the state for more than two centuries ; 
his father represented New Hampshire in both 
houses of Congress. He was educated in the 
schools of Concord, by Moses Woolson, at the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a 
member of the class of '81, and at the ]-[ar\-ard I>a\v 
school. His law preceptor was John \'. Mugridge, 
and he was admitted to the Par in August, 1882. 
After practicing his profession for a year he entered 
the banking house of E. H. Rollins & .Sons, becom- 
ing Vice-President of the house after its incorpora- 
tion and taking charge of the lloston office, although 




he retained his residence in Concord. In |)olitics 
he is a Republican. In 1895 he was elected to the 
State Senate, of which he was chosen President. 
Fie has served in variou.s capacities in the National 
(juard from Private to Assistant .XdJLitant Ceneral 



with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He is an 
attendant of the Episcopal church and a Trustee of 
St. Mary's School for Girls. He has written much 
and well, his published works including, "The 
Ring in the Cliff," " lireak ( )'day Tales," "The 
'I'win Hussars," aud "The Lady of the Violets," 
besides many magazine articles and short stories. 
In 1893 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree 
of M. A. Mr. Rollins, who is an able speaker, 
made the address for the New England delegation 
which journeyed to Canton to visit Mr. McKinley 
in 1896. 



SMITH, Charles Stewart, long one of the 
leading merchants of New Vork and connected 
with man)' of its financial institutions, was born in 
E.xeter, New Hampshire, March 2, 1832, son of 
John and Esther Mary (Woodruff) Smith. His 
father was a Minister of the First Congregational 
Church of that place. His mother was a daughter 
of Aaron D. Woodruff, Attorney -(General of New 
jersey. ( )n the paternal side, Mr. .Smith is of 
English descent, the family having settled in the 
\alley of the Connecticut in 1641. He was edu- 
cated at the Ivxeter public and High School, and 
was taught Latin and Greek by his father. At 
fifteen he taught school in Connecticut, and a year 
later he went to New Vork, becoming clerk in a 
dry-goods house. Upon attaining his majority, he 
was admitted to partnership with S. H. Chittenden 
& Company, and for several years lived abroad as 
their European buyer. Later he formed the firm 
of Smith, Hogg lV Gardner, which succeeded to 
the dry-goods commission house of A. & A. Law- 
rence of Boston. Mr. Smith retired from active 
business in 1887. In 1884 he was elected Vice- 
President of the Chamber of Commerce of New 
York, and three years later was elected its Presi- 
dent, which position he held for seven years. He 
has been prominently connected with a numlier of 
great corporations. He was one of the founders of 
the Fifth Avenue Bank, and of the German-Amer- 
ican Insurance Company; is a Director of the 
United States Trust C'ompany, Fourth National 
and Merchants" Banks, (jreenwich Savings Bank, 
and Equitable Life Assurance Societv. He is 
also Trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital. He is 
Vice-President of the Union League Club, a mem- 
ber of the Merchants', Metropolitan. City, Law- 
yers', Players', and Century chilis of New Vork, 
and of the New England Society. He is an occa- 
sional contriliutor to the North .\merican Re\iew, 



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and is tlie fortunate possessor of a choice and well- 
l<no\vn collection of paintings, including fine exam- 
ples of the old masters. He is a life member of 
the National Academy of Design, and Trustee of 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the course 
of a recent visit to Japan, he purchased the remark- 
able collection of Japanese porcelains and other 
objects of art made by Captain lirinkley, during a 
residence of twenty-five years in Japan, and pre- 
sented it to the Metropolitan Museum. In politics 
he is a Re|)ul)lican. He was tendered, in 1894, 
the nomination of his party for Mayor of New 
Vork, Init declined the honor. Mr. Smith has for 
many years been active and prominent in reform 
movements in New Vork. He was Chairman of 
the Chamber of Commerce Railroad Committee, 
which after a long struggle and public investiga- 
tion nuule by tile Hepbiun Connnittee. secured for 
New \'ork state the benefit of a Railroad Com- 
mission. He was Chairman of the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Coniniiltee of Seventy that overthrew 
'I'annnany Hall and elected Mayor Strong in i<S94, 
and was also chairman of the Executive Committee 
of the' Citizens" Inion in 1.S97 that nominated Seth 




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STARK. Gii.i.is, Physician, Manchester, was 
born in that city. February 9. 1865, son of Freder- 
ick G., and Anna H. (Hutchin.son) Stark. He is a 
great-great-grandson of General John Stark. He 
received his education in the schools of his native 
place, graduating from the High School in the 
class of '83. Later he attended Dartmouth Medi- 
cal College and was graduated June 27. 1889. He 



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C.ILI.IS sr.VRK. 

began practice in Rockland, Massachusetts, but 
the following Februaiy removed to Northwood, 
New Hampshire, where he remained fifteen months. 
At the end of that time he settled in Manchester, 
where he is now in practice. He was elected 
Alderman in November. 1896, for a term of two 
years. He is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, 
a Knight of Ancient Essenic Order, and a nieml)er 
of the Foresters of America. In politics he is a 
Democrat. Dr. Stark married, April (. 181^3. Ger- 
trude M. Hall. 



TOWNE, (JiiORCii Dana, Physician. .Manchester, 
was born in Newport. New Hampshire, January 12, 
CHARi.KS s. SMITH. jg^^_ j.^,., ^f i).,„jei I );ina and lietsey Hean (Robin- 

Low for Mayor, and with an organization existing .son) Towne. His parents were both of English de- 
but six months, cast one hundred and fifty thousand scent, his father's ancestors coming from \armouth. 
votes for its candidate, and was only defeated by He is in the ninth generation from W illiam and 
the hostility of the Machines who feared a muni- Joanna (lilessing) Towne. who .settled in Salem, 
cipal government imtrammelled by party obligation.s. Massachusetts, and removed to Topsfield. Massa- 



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cliusL'tts. in 16^6. Dr. 'rnwnc was educated in tlie 
pul)lic schools of Manchester and hiter at iJart- 
nioutli. where he was graduated in 1875. He pur- 
sued his medical studies at tiie I'niversity of the 
('it\- of New York, being graduated in iSy.H. He 




r,EORi;F. II. TDWNK. 

has been engaged in tlie practice nf medicine in 
Manchester since tiiat time. He has been Surgeon 
of tlie Elliot Hospital since 1X90. and Chairman of 
its Medical lioard. He lias serxed as ('il\- and 
Count)" Phj'sician. member of the Health Hoard of 
the city. Chairman of the Hoard of l-xkuatinn. local 
Medical K.xaminer for fifteen different life insur- 
ance companies. Surgeon of the Amoskeag X'eter- 
ans and Consulting Surgeon of the Hillsborough 
('ounty I'arni. l)r. 'I'owne is a nieml)er of the iNew 
Hampshire Medical Society, the Manchester Med- 
ical Association, the Medico-Legal Society of New 
York, the Center District Medical Society and an 
iionorar\ inember of the !)artm<iulh .\lcdiial .Mumni 
Association. He is also a mcuibcr of the Derry- 
field Club, Manchester, of uhi( h In- h.rs been I'res- 
ident. 



■|li( ).\i l'S( >N, Jamis. I, umbel in. m. llooksett, 
was born in Merrimack. New ll.impshire. ( )ctober 
22, 1826. son f)f James and I'liscilla (Woods) 
'I'hompson. He takes pridi- in lln' fact that 
he beais till- name of the fomidei uf the famiU' in 



America, James Thomiison. from w liom he is a 
descendant in the eighth generation, one of the 
original settlers of W'oburn, Massachusetts, who 
was a leader of a band who settled in that part of 
the place now known as North \\'oburn. James 
Thompson, the first, when he landed in this coun- 
try, was thirty-seven years old. married, and had 
four children, and he is l)elie\ed to have been con- 
nected with families in London eminent in social, 
intellectual, and religinus s[iheres, a considerable 
number of wliose members received the ( )rder of 
Knighthood. For many years he was a great 
force in the C(immunit_\'. and was largely connected 
with the management of its pul)lic and religious 
affairs. His numerous descendants are found in 
nearly e\ery section of the Lnited States, and in 
several foreign countries. 'I'heir genealogy includes, 
among the dead and lixing. the names of many men 
prominent in the tliflerenl walks nf life, among them 
being lienjamin 'I'lKimpsdU, better known as Count 
Rumford. Jnnathan 'I'hompson, grandfather (if the 
suljject of this sketch, was a brave soldier in the 
Revolution, who had a ]iai"t in tlie battle of liunker 
Hill, wdiere he used bullets which he had " run " 
just before that contest began. James Thompson 
is connected on the maternal side with the Reed 
family, one of whose members is the Hon. Thomas 
15. Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
He attended the district school of Merrimack, and 
tiiere studied industriously, and as he grew older 
assisted his father in the regul.ir woik on the farm. 
One autunui, when he was about thirteen, he was 
greatly elated lo ha\e the i hancc to pick apples at 
twelve and a half cents a day, for a neighboring 
farmer. It was the fust opportunit\- he had to 
earn read}- money, and he im|iid\'ed it to the best 
of his ability, working from da\light to dark each 
day. When his emplo\er paid liiui, lie remarketl : 
"You ha\e done well; you will make a smart 
man." This incitlent is mentioned as illustiating 
the push, energy', and ambition of the liow and 
also because it proxed the liist stepping-stone in a 
career that has made him one of the wealthiest 
men in the \alley in whiih he was boin. His 
father, whose means were limited, .ippieciated the 
son's ability, and when the bo)- was nearly sixteen 
m'ged him to seek a held of greater opportunities. 
sa\ing: "James, you ha\e been ,1 faithful son lo 
me, but this is not the phn e for \ on to get \'our 
start in the world. \ou ha\i- ability, and can do 
much better than \on are doing here, and 1 want 
vou to go somew lu'ri'. and strike out for \duiself. 



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I freely give you your time, and I am sorry tluit I 
am so situated tliat 1 cannot do more for you." 
Accepting the kind advice of his father, the son 
" hired out " to an uncle, Jeremiah Woods, a 
farmer of Merrimack, where his first year's earn- 




JAMF.S ['HOMI'SIIX. 

ings amounted to about a hundred dollars in cash, 
besides his board, which for those days was do- 
ing remarkably well for a l)o\- in his teens. He 
remained there three years. A part of his work 
was to assist his uncle in catching wild pigeons, 
and there he got his first lessons in an industry 
that he pursued extensively in later life. After- 
wards, he was emplo)-ed at lumbering by (".ilman 
Palmer, a stage-driver between Nashua and Con- 
cord. He next worked for the Kittredges at brick- 
making, and stayed with them until he learned to 
do the " striking." Then for several seasons he 
worked as a " striker " in the brick-yards of vari- 
ous proprietors, and received handsome wages. 
Subsecpiently, while lumbering for Captain Nathan 
Parker, in Merrimack, he had the pluck to buy, 
on his own account, with cash and on credit, a 
timber lot which was sold by auetion, and which he 
cleared, making a good profit. 'Ihat transaction 
was the beginning of a business which he has 
followed to the present time, and the extent of 
which has been such as to justly include him 
among the " Lumber Kings " of New Hampshire. 
He has owned and operated upon forest tracts in 



twenty-one towns in the Granite State, mostly in 
Merrimack and Hillsborough counties. In some 
winters, ninety-two horses, fifty-six yokes of oxen, 
and several hundred men were recpiired in prose- 
cuting the work. In addition to the manufacturing 
of lumber and forwarding it to the markets by rail, 
Mr. Thompson has sent many millions of logs 
down the Merrimack river, and has also dealt 
largelv in the finest of ship timber. For many 
years in the open season, he was busily engaged in 
catching wild pigeons, and consigning them to 
commission merchants in Boston, New York, and 
Chicago, following this occupation not only in New 
F.ngland but in New York, Pennsylvania, and in 
the far West, inclnding Minnesota, and thus earn- 
ing the sobriquet of the •' largest pigeoner " in the 
United States. Mr. Thompson has always taken 
great pains in his agricultural eiTorts, and his home 
farm in the sun-lit valley of the Merrimack em- 
braces four hundred acres of the choicest alluvial 
land. His spacious and ancient farm-house, large 
and well arranged barns, splendid cattle and well- 
tilled fields, constitute one of the model farming 
establishments of his native state. Although 
always keenly interested in civil and political affairs 
Mr. Thompson has never been a politician in the 
general acceptation of the term, yet while a resi- 
dent of Bow he was elected a Representative to the 
Legislature in i860 and 1861, and also in T870 and 
1871. During those four terms of service in the 
General Court he was a member of several impor- 
tant committees, and by his voice and votes exerted 
a strong influence upon the character of the legisla- 
tion enacted in those years. He has often been 
urged to allow the use of his name in connection 
with other responsible public positions, but has 
always emphatically declined on the ground that 
his private affairs demanded all his time. In the 
financial world he is widely known, being inter- 
ested in many monied and textile corporations. He 
is a Director of the Manchester and North Weare 
Railroad, and also a Director of the recently organ- 
ized Hosiery Mills Company of Hooksett. Offices 
in other similar corporations have often been 
tendered him. but lie declined them. The only 
secret bod\- to whiL-h he belongs is the Grange of 
the Patrons of Husbandry of Hooksett, where he 
has resided since 1871. On November 11, 1852, 
he was married to Miss Susannah M. Colby of 
Bow, who died in April, 1S97. James Thompson, 2nd. 
a nephew of Mr. Thompson's, resides with him and 
assists him in the management of his varied busi- 



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ness intcrt'sts. lie has nnu hrotliLT, I,ullicr W. 
Thompson nf Montana, and four sisters: Mrs. 
Sophia R. Jones of Ciielsea. Massacluisetts ; Mrs. 
Clarissa A. Parker of Nashua ; Mrs. Lueinila A. 
jacknian of Wilmington, Delaware; and Mrs. 
Elizabeth E. Rolfe of Newburyport. Massachu- 
setts. Mr. Thompson is a gentleman of frank and 
pleasing manners, easily makes friends and holds 
them, advocates temperance and strictly practices 
it, prides himself upon his integrity and honoralile 
dealings in all his transactions, contributes liber- 
ally to the support of religion and all other good 
causes, and is recognized throughout New Hamp- 
shire as a progressi\e. public-spirited, and influen- 
tial citizen. 



TUTTLE, J.VMEs Patterson, Lawyer, >[an- 
chester, was born in New ]!oston. New Hampshire, 
julv 17, iS:;6, son of lames Moore and Rachel 
Patterson (McNeil) Tuttle. < »n the paternal sitlc Ik- 
Is of English descent, tracing his am estry to John 
Tothill, who came from 1 )e\'onsliire in the early 
days of the Colonies and settled in 1 )o\ er. His 




|AMr;s p. I'UT'n.K. 

mother's ancestors came from the north of Ireland 
and settled in Londonderry, New H.nnpshire. Mr. 
Tuttle received his education in the connnon schools 
of his native town, in the Academy at l-'rancestown. 
New I lampshire. and in the ('nshing Academy at 



Ashburnham. Massachusetts. He read law with 
David Cross and John II. .\iulrews, of Manchester, 
attended the Law SiIhhiI of lioston l^nix-ersitv, 
graduating from tint institution in lune, 188c;, and 
was admitted to the New Hampshire ]jar, July 29, 
18S5. Since September of that year he has been 
engaged in the practice of his profession in Man- 
chester. He was a Kepresentative to the Ceneral 
Court from New Uoston in 1887 and has been 
Solicitor ol Hillsborough county since April, 181)3. 
He is a member of the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen, and of the Ridgley Lodge of Odd Fel- 
lows, hi politics Mr. Tuttle is a Republican. He 
married January i, 1887, Lizzie J. Runten of Dun- 
barton, New Hampshire. They have four daugh- 
ters : r»ora Morton, Rachel Winifred. Florence 
Elizabeth, and Margaret Esther Tuttle. 



IT'TON. Petkr, ]!ank President, East Jaffrey. 
was born in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, October i, 
1S16, son of lonathan and Nancv (W'hittemore) 
LTpton. He is si.xtli in descent from John L'pton, 
who was one of the Scottish ]3risoners taken by 
Cromwell either at the battle of Dunliar or Worces- 
ter, and who came to this country earh' in the last 
half of the seventeenth centui\-. Mr. ITpton was 
educated in the (.(iniinon school at Tvnosboro and 
at Dunstable and at the Academies in Pepperell and 
New Ipswich. He then entered the store of Samp- 
son Fletcher at New Ipswich, remaining there until 
1S37, when he went to l^ast Jaffrey and became 
clerk in Hiram Duncan's store. After two years, 
he entered into partnership with ,Mr. I )uncan. In 
1 85 1 the first State Rank began business in Jaffrey 
and Mr. ITpton was made Cashiei-. In 1865. it was 
changed to a National Hank and he continued as 
Cashier until 188 1. He was then made President, 
which office he still holds, and his son Hiram was 
chosen Cashier. He was 'i'reasurer for twenty-six 
years of the Monadnock Savings Bank at East Jaf- 
frey. Li 1 86 1 President lancoln appointed him 
Postmaster at the same ])lace anil he held the posi- 
tion until 1 884. He was a member of the Legisla- 
ture of i848-'5o and was in (iovernor Currier's 
Council in 1885 '87. It was largel\- through his 
e.Kertions that the Monadnock Railroad fiom Win- 
chendon to I^eterhoro was built in iS72.andhe was 
a stockholder and Dircctoi IK, 111 tli.it lime until the 
road was bought by the h'itchbuig Railroad. Mr. 
Upton has prolxiblv done more than any other per- 
son towaiil buildini^ up .ind impii>\ing I'^ast j.ilTrew 



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'IMie lU'w lil)r;iry huililinj; was erected under his and carriai;e trimming, fiiristopher Wilder corn- 
care and supervision, and lie contributed toward it menced business in Conway Village, then a stage 
in order to ha\e it properly built. Mr. Upton has center, in 1850, and continued to carry on the same 



always been an active Republican. On June 2&, 
1S53, he was married to Sarah M. Duncan, daugh- 



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>«r 





imtil 1875, While a member of the Legislature in 
i86g, he succeeded in obtaining the charter of the 
Conway Savings Hank, assi.sted in its organization 
the following years, and has ever since been con- 
nected with the institution as a Trustee. For 
eleven years, he served as Assistant Treasurer and 
Secretary, and since 1885, has been its 'I'reasurer. 
In 1871 he was appointed Register of the Probate 
Court l.iy ("jinernor Weston, holding the position 
five years, and has been in practice in that court up 
to the present time. He was Commissioner for 
Carroll county in i86o-'63, member of the Board 
of Selectmen of Conway in 1864, 1865, 1866. 1867, 
a Re]-)resentati\e to the State Legislature in 1868 
and i.Sfir), and again a Selectman in 1877 and 1878. 
He is an Odd Fellow, having been a member of 
the Saco \'alley Lodge. No. 21, from 1854 to 1892, 
and of Swift River Lodge, No, 84. from 1892 up to 
the present time. He is a member of the Metho- 
dist K])is(n|ial .Society in (dnwav Village. In poli- 



I'KIKU I'l'I'DN. 

ter of Hiram Duncan of lalTrey, former |:iartner of 
.Mr. I'pton. They have three children: Mary A., 
now .Mrs. W. I., (ioodnow; Hiram Duncan Upton 
of Manchester, New Hampshire: and Alice W.. 
now Mrs. S 11. I'carmain of I'oston, 




W II.DKK, Ciikisrdi'iii.K Wai.ki-.k. ISank Treas- 
urer, Conway, New Hampshire, was born in Lan- 
caster, Massachusetts, January 7. 1829, son of Fli- 
sha ;uul I'.mily (I'ollard) \\'ilder. He is of English 
descent, being in the sixth generation from Thomas 
Wilder, who ciinie fioin Lancaster and settled in 
the town (if the same name in Massachirsetts. It 
is interesting to note th:it in a signature, July 1, 
1659,10 a Co\en;int, entered into by the first set- 
tlers of Lancaster, he spelK'd his name Wyelder, 
The subject of this sketch was educated in the com- 
mon schools and in the Academy at I'"ryeburg. tics he is a Democrat. Mr. Wilder was married 
Maine. Upon the death of his mother, his father November 25, 1852, to Sophia Creenwoodof l''arm- 
had found a home for the three children with an ington. Maine. They have had three children: 
aunt in Conway, New Hampshire. After serving Ceorge Sidney, Annette A.. Fred (»., and Henry P, 
an apprenticeship in the tratle of harness making Wilder. The last named finly is living. 



I IIRIMCII'III'.K W. WII.UKU 



MEN OF 



K()(;ress. 



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TWITCH ELL, Ali;krt Sop.ieski, Lawyer, Cor- 
ham, was born in UethL-l, Maine, September i6, 
1840, son of losepli A. and ( )rinda L. (^h^son) 
Twitchell, He is a descendant of two nf the oldest 
families who settled in Oxford county, Maine. He 




At.KKRl' S. rWITCHELI.. 

recei\'ed his educaliim in (Mould's Acatleniy in his 
native town. lie left school at the age of sixteen 
and taught for a time in the conunon schools. 
During the Civil War. he served as an enlisted 
soldier. He studied law and was admitted tn the 
Bar at Paris, Maine, at the September term, 1865, 
and to the New Hain|.ishire Bar, at Lancaster, at 
the October term, 1S66. I'.eginning the practice of 
his profession at Gorhani ni 1S66, he has remained 
there ever since. He was Selectman of the town 
for three years and has been a member of the 
School Board for the past twelve years. For three 
years, he was Railroad Connnissioner for New 
Hampshire and Commissary General nf New 
Hampshire for two years. He served as (dnsul at 
Santiago de Cuba, under President ll.inison. He 
was President of the New Hampshire Veterans' 
Association for two years ; has been j udge Advo- 
cate and lunior and Senior Vice-Cnmniander, De- 
partment New Hampshire Grand Army of the 
Republic, and is at |)resent the I)e|3artment C(jm- 
mander. Mr. Twitchell is a 'i'hirty-seiond degree 
Mason; a mt'niljer of lohn Iv Willis Post No. 51^, 



(loiham; an ( )dd I'ellnw, a nicnilier uf ( '.len l,odge 
at the same place; a niemhci of llranih.dl Lodge 
No. 3. Knights of IMhias, Purtland, Maine, .md is 
President of the Gorham l''i\e Cent .SaviTigs liank. 
In politics he is a K.epuhlican, from principle 
rather than |iolicv. He married Ma\' 7, 1S69, 
Ennna A. Miiwl.ind of (Inrham. The)- had two 
children; Ibiiuld P., hum M:iy 31. 1.S75. who died 
May 2^, 1883; and Rita May ruitchell, Ixirn May 
16, 1S89. 



WWLLACF, ScMNKK. Shoe Manufacturer, 
Rochester, was burn in th;it ]ilace March 7, iScjO, 
son of l<',bene/ei' G. and S.irah E. ((ireenlield ) Wal- 
l.ice. ( )n liis l;ithiM's side, he is of SkiIi h-lrish 
descent and cm his mother's, faiglish. He received 
his early edu(:ition in the pulilit schools and at the 
Academy in his nati\e town. I,;itei'. he prepared 
for college at the South Berwick .-Vcadeni)-. entered 
Dartmouth anil was gradu;ited in 1877. I'or a 
number of \ears ;ifter leaving college, he worketl in 
the sliop at the bench anil is now a member of the 
lirm of E. G. \: }•'.. Wallace, manufacturers of boots 



■in ^f* ■ 



1 




SUMNKK W.\I.I..\i;E. 

and shoes. He is President of the Kim hester Lo;in 
and Panking C'ompanw .ind of the Cnion Electric 
Company, a Director of the (Ireat l''alls M;niufac- 
turing (_'om|):in)', of the StralToi'd Manuf;utnring 
Comi);iny, of the ."-itai" llelting ( 'ompanw of the 



8o 



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Standard Rivet Company, Boston, of the Union 
National 15ank of Oniaiia, of the First National 
Dank of Carroll, Iowa, of the Manchester iV- Law- 
rence Railroad, and of the lialtimore & Annapolis 
Short Line Railroad. He is a Trustee of the Roch- 
ester Libiarv. In 1.S7.S .Mr. Wallace was Super- 
visor of the check-list, in 1SS5 was a member of 
the Legislature, and for a number of years was a 
member of the .'^tate Central Committee. He has 
been through the chairs in the Odd Fellows, and is 
a Mason and a Knight of the F^ssenic Order. He 
was married January 30, 1884. to Harriet Z. Curtis. 
They have one son : Scott Wallace. 



ALLKN, Jamics Franki.i.n, Indian Department 
at Washington, District of Columbia, a resident of 
Kockville, Maryland, was born in Hopkinton, New 




JA.MK.s F. Al.l.liiN. 

Hampshire, August 13, 1841, son of Jonathan 
Leach and Caroline Brown (.•Mlison) .Mien. He is 
descended in the patern.il line in the seventh gen- 
eration from William Allen, who came from Eng- 
land to Cape Ann, now Gloucester, for and with the 
Uorchester Company in 1624, and went to Nauni- 
keag, now Salem, three year.s later, and in 1640 
moved to Manchester, Massachusetts, then called 
Jeffries' Creek. Jonathan Allen in the fourth gen- 
eration from William, removed to llopkinton. New 
Hampshire, in 1780, where he dieil in 1792. and 



where his descendants lived down to 1863. Mr. 
Allen's maternal grandfather, James Allison, lived 
for many vears in 1 )unbarton, of which town he was 
Postmaster, and represented it in the Legislature 
in i827-'2S, His great-grandfather came to this 
country in 17 18, and settled with the .Scotch-Irish 
Colony in Londonderr}-. He attended the common 
schools of Hopkinton, and Hopkinton and Pem- 
broke Academies. He was graduated from Dart- 
mouth College in the class of 1862 ; studied law 
with the Hon. Mason W. Tappan for about si,\ 
months, and graduated with the class of the Law 
Department of ('olumbian t'ollege, Washington, 
District of Columbia, June 12. 1866. He was 
admitted to the FSar June 12 f)f that year. From 
December 23, 1863, to F)ecember 31, 1875, he was 
employed as a clerk in the office of the Third Audi- 
tor of the Treasury of Washington, resigning this 
office to engage in the practice of law and claims 
business until March 7. 1881. when he was ap- 
pointed to a clerkship in the War Department. He 
resigned F'ebruaiy 14, 1882. to accept a position in 
the Lidian Department which he holds at the pres- 
ent time, having been promoted through all the 
various grades. He was a Commissioner to negotiate 
with the Nez Perce Indians, November 14, 1892, 
and thus employed until February 18, 1893. He 
is a member of the Town Council, R^ockville, Mar)-- 
land. i896-'98. He is a Mason and Past Master 
of the Pentalpha Lodge, No. 23, Washington, Dis- 
trict of Columbia, and Montgomery Lodge, No. 
195, Rockville, Maiyland, Ancient F'ree and Ac- 
cepted Masons ; Past High Priest Mount Vernon 
Chapter, No. 3, Washington, District of Columbia, 
and Montgomery Chapter, No. ;^^, Rockville, Mar)'- 
lancl. Royal Arch Masons ; Past Illustrious Master, 
King Solomon Council. No. 13, Ro\al and .Select 
Master, Rockville. Maryland; Past Connnander of 
the Columbia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Tem- 
plar, Washington. District of Columbia, and at 
present Junior Warden of the Grand Lodge of 
Masons of ISLiryland. He is a Republican, but has 
not been active in politics. Mr. Allen was married 
October 25. 1866, to Julia A. Dow. and August 28, 
1 888. to Lilabel ISLuis. 

ALLISON, George Augu.stus, for many years 
a leading merchant of Boston, and \\ ho died in that 
city in January, 1S98, was a New Hampsiiire man 
and a native of Warner. He was born September 
14, 1843, son of James and Mary (Ireland) Allison. 
I lis father was a native of Dunbarton, and was 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



born in 1784. On the paternal side, Mr. Allison 
traces his descent from Clan Mac.Xllister of the 
Scotch-Irish race. It is recorded in 171S that 
Samuel Allison, then twenty-eight years of age, left 
Londonderry, Ireland, for lioston. The ne.xt year 
he moved to Nutheld, now Loiulmulerry, New 
Hampshire, where in the cemetery iiis gravestone 
mav be seen. \\'hen (jeorge Allison was two years 
old the familv nioxed from XN'ainer to Manchester, 
and again in 1853 to Goffstown. 'I'he boy at- 
tended the district school, and a little later studied 
Cireek. his instructor being the minister nf his par- 
ish. He became a student of I'enibroke Academy, 
where he was known for his diligent attention to 
his books. When he was lifteen years old he 
walked from the Academy to Concord and back, 
a distance of fifteen miles, to hear a lecture bv 




Edward Everett. He t(](ik an academical ciiurse at 
Pembroke with the hope of going to Dartmouth and 
fitting for medicine, but circmnstances did not jjer- 
mit the carrying (lut "f this plan, and he went into 
the employ of his brother, in Concord, who was 
a pharmacist. ISy the time he was eighteen, Mr. 
Allison was recognized as a competent aiul especially 
accurate druggist. He Hnally graduated from the 
retail to the wholesale business of n druggist, and 
in 1869 became a partner in the linn of Poor, 
'I'owne iV Company, of IJoslon. In iSyS Mi-. Alli- 



son went into the wholesale Anur business with the 
firm of Dorr, lieald & Co., which soon became 
Dorr, .Vllison iV Co., and for the remaining 
twenty years of his life he was widely known in 
that line of trade. Among his business acquaint- 
ances all o\ er the countrv. he enjoyed a marked 
degree of conhdence, and at his decease, tributes of 
regard were received by his family and firm from 
about forty of the best known business concerns in 
the flour trade in the countrv. In 18C5, Mr. Alli- 
son took up his residence in Cambridge, where he 
sr)on became a factor of good in the life of the city. 
For two years he was a niemlx-r of the Connnon 
Council, for two more an Alderman, and for foin- 
years ser\ ed on the .School Iloarfl. He was a 
Director of the Chamber of Commerce for five 
years, was Treasurer of the Sons of New Hampshire, 
and Auditor of the Colonial Club. He held many 
important positions in the North Avenue Baptist 
chmxh, of which he became a member in iSyo. At 
the time of his death he was \'ice-President of the 
Cambridge Club. He was a member of the Amer- 
ican Order of United Workmen, and Royal Arca- 
num. In politics he was alwa\s a Republican. Mr. 
Allison was married November 12, 1864, and left 
three children. 



AMEN, Hari.an I'ack, Principal of Phillips 
Exeter Academy, was born at Sinking Spring, 
Highland coimtw ( )hio, April 14, 18^3, son of 
Daniel and Sarah Jane (Barbour) Amen. On the 
paternal side, his ancestors were of the Huguenot 
stock, who went from France to Switzerland, where 
representatives of the family still live, some of them 
having held high public offices in recent years. 
Durst Annnen. for religious and political reasons, left 
Switzerland for America. His descendants (Annnen 
and Amen liy name) have lived mostly in Virginia 
•nid ( )liio. ,\(lniiral Daniel .\nimen and (leneral 
Jacob Amen are representatives of the Virginia and 
Ohio family. Harlan P. Amen attended the ccjui- 
mon schools of his native town, and in 1868 and 
1870 studied at the Portsmouth High School. 
The story of his struggle for an education, and his 
success as a teacher and student, is an insjiiration 
in itself. While he was a pupil of the J'ortsmouth 
High School, he found it necessary to earn some 
money. He became a ( lerk in the \ .dley Book- 
store, a wholesale and retail establishmenl. the' pro- 
prietor of which was Captain W. \\'. Reilh'. Here 
he kejit the books, and acted as stock-boy. While 
he w.is bookkeeper, a lire did great liam.ige to the 



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store, and Mr. .Aincn".s cffort.s in saving the account 
books, and a part of the stock, led to his employer 
presenting him a watcli, the first timekeeper he 
ever possessed. He studied liard, during his 
clerkship, and was much encouraged in his ambi- 
tion for an education by his former principal of the 
High School, as well as by a minister and physi- 
cian in his native town. When he came East, and 
began his studies at Exeter in i,S7_>, he found him- 
self with only thirty-tive dollars in his pocket, but 
he obtained various emplovments, including tutor- 
ing, etc., and was able to support himself and lay 
by sevent3-tive dollars in his last year, when he won 
the Oordon scholarship, the second largest prize 




IIARIAN 1'. AMKN. 

(one hmidred and twenty dollars), then existing in 
the school. His closest competitor was William 
1 )c Will Hyde. n(]w I'lesidentof Bowdoin College. 
.Mr. Hyde and Mr. Amen were room-mates at 
Exeter, and afterwards at Harvard, and have been 
close friends ever since. Mr. .\men entered Har- 
vard College with honors in 1875, and was gradu- 
ated in 1879, having w-on a scholarship in each 
year of his course. He began teaching, immedi- 
ately upon his graduation from Harvard, and 
became an Instructor in Riverview Academy, 
Poughkeepsie, New York, in the fall of 1879. 
After three years, he accepted an offer as equal 
partner with Otis Bisbee and Joseph B. Bisbee in 



the lirm of Bisbee, Son iV Amen, to manage the 
business affairs of the Academy. When he began 
teaching in 1879. the total enrolment of students at 
Riverview was forty-one. The school had been 
losing ground for many years, but after 1879 -'80 
the number of students steadily increased until it 
reached a maximum of one hundred and eighty- 
four, a year or two before he left the .school. In 
[885, Mr. ( )tis liisbee dietl. The school then 
came into the hands of his son and Mr. .Amen, as 
ec|ual principals and proprietors. 'I'his partnership 
continued until June, 1895, when .Mr. Amen left 
Riverview to become Principal of Phillips Exeter 
Academy. There his administration has been 
markedly successful. He was honored with the 
degree of A. M. by Williams College in 1886, and 
in 1888 was elected an honorary member of the 
American Whig Society, of Princeton University. 
He is a member of the Twilight Club and Univer- 
sity Club of New York; the Appalachian Mountain 
Club and University Club of Bo.ston ; the Ameri- 
can Archaeological Society, the American Philologi- 
cal Society, member and officer of several educa- 
tional organizations, etc. In 1892. he spent four 
months on a trip abroad, visiting the public schools 
of England, — Rugby, Eton, Harrow, Winchester, 
St. Paul's, Cheltenham, Charterhouse, and others, 
as well as a number of the leading secondary 
schools of (Jermany and France, Mr. Amen mar- 
ried, April 5, 1882, Mary B, Rawson of Whitins- 
ville, Massachusetts, He has four children : Mar- 
garet Rawson. Elizabeth Wheeler, Rachel Perne, 
and |ohn Harlan .\men. 



liR.WCll, ()ii\i;r Ernesto, I'.x-l'nited Stales 
District .Attorney for New Hampshire, Manchester, 
was born in Madison, Lake countv, Ohio, July 19, 
1847, son of William Witter and Lucy J. (Bartram) 
Piranch. His father, who was born at Aurelius, 
Cayuga county. New York. August 31, 1804, was a 
lawyer, and one of the Judges of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas for Fake county. He obtained the char- 
ter for the Cleveland, Plainsviile iV .Xshtabula Rail- 
road in 1848, and was chief promoter of the road 
which afterwards developed into the great Fake 
Shore System. William Branch was the eldest son 
of Deacon William I>ranch of Preston, Connecticut, 
born September 3, 1760. He was a soldier of the 
Revolution, enlisted in 1777, fought through the 
war under Washington's command : was at .Mon- 
mouth. C.ermantown. F'ort Mifilin, and NOrktown ; 
wintered at \'alley F'orge ; was one of .^h^jor 



MEN Of^ PROGRESS. 



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Andre's guards during his trial, and helped take 
him down from the gallows. ( )n the dishan<ling of 
the army, he received a "badge of merit" for six 
years' service, signed bv \\'ashington. He was the 
son of Samuel Branch of Preston, (.'onnecticnt. 
born September 3, 1701, who was the son of I'eter 
I^ranch.one of the founders of Preston, Connecticut, 
born at Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1659, and died 
at Preston, December 27, 1713. John Pranch of 
Scituate, Massachusetts, father of I'eter, was born 
in Holden, England, 162S. He was the son of 
Peter Branch of that place, a carpenter, who sailed 
for America, with his son. in the ship " t'astle," in 
1638, and who died on the voyage. The boy, 
afterwards known as " John Branch of Scituate," 
married Mary Speed of Marshfield, in 1652. Peter 
liranch of Preston married Hannah Lincoln, in 
1684. She was the daughter of Thomas and Mary 
(.\ustin) Lincoln, and granddaughter of 'Phonias 
Lincoln, the miller who built and owned the mill at 
Taunton, Massachusetts, in which the three com- 
missioners from Boston met King Philip, in April, 
1 68 1, to ask for an explanation of his hostile acts. 
Lucy |. (Bartram) Branch, mother of the subject of 
this sketch, was the daughter of llriah and Re- 
becca (Williams) I3artram. She was born at h'air- 
field. Huntington countw ( 'onnecticut. May 25, 
1S16, and died at INLidison. ( Ihio, May 17, i8()7. 
.She was the granddaughter of Daniel and ."Xnn 
(Merchant) ]'>artram of fxeading, Connecticut. 
lianiel llartram was born at Reading. ( )ctober 27,. 
1745; and Ann Merchant at h'airlield. in 1769. 
Daniel ISartram was a soldier of the Kevokition. 
and was the son of Daniel Bartram of I'airheld, 
who was born in 1702, and mo\ed to Reading in 
1733. He was the son of John Bartram of Eair- 
field, who was the son of J(jhn l!artram of the 
same place. Ann Merchant was the daughter of 
Elinor (Chauncey) Merchant, who was a descen- 
dant of Israel Chauncey of New Haven, son of the 
Reverend Charles Chauncey, the second President 
of Harvard College. On the paternal side, the 
lineage of Oliver E. P.ranch includes, besides the 
families mentioned, Laml), \A'itter, Tracy, Wheeler, 
Williams, Wolcott, and Parke ; and on the maternal 
side, besides those mentioned, Riclnnoiul, ( iilbert, 
Chapin. Griswold. and Williams. Mr. Branch 
attended the public schools of Madison, Madison 
Seminary, and Whitestown Seminary, at Whites- 
borough, New \'ork. He entered Hamilton Col- 
lege in September, 1869, being graduated June 25, 
'^73- I'pon leaving college, he was Principal of 



Eorestvilie Eree Academy and Union School, at 
Forest\ille, New York, for two \cars. He entered 
Columbia College Law School in September, 1871;, 
and was graduated in May, 1877. He was Listruc- 
tor in Latin and Histor\- in the Brooklyn Polytech- 
nic and Collegiate Institute, at llrookhn. from 
.September. 1876. to June, 1877. He received the 
degree of A. M. from Hamilton in 1876, and from 
Dartmouth in i8()f). Mr. Ilranch was admitted to 
the Bar, in New N'ork, in June, 1877, and in New 
Hampshire in June, i8,S4. He liegan the practice 
of law in New \'ork. with his lirother, in the fall of 
1877, and remained there luitil 1883. when he 
moved to New Hampshire, and engaged in literary 




O. K. r.R.'\.NCH. 

work in Weare. He was elected in 1887 to the 
New Hampshire Legislature, and took a leading 
part in the famous railroad fight of that session, 
and was re-elected in 1889, when he was the Demo- 
cratic candidate for Speaker. Since 1889 he has 
been in active practice in Manchester, New Hamp- 
shire, removing there from Weare, in i,H(;4. He 
has been counsel for the Doston \' Maine Railroad 
and all im|5ortant litigation for the last \vn )ears. 
Among the many suits in which he has been 
engaged were the quo warranto prot ceilings brought 
by Harry Bingham el als. in 1891. \s. S. S. Jewett, 
Clerk of the Ilonst' of Representati\ es of New 
Hani|)sliiri\ f(]r tlu' (ontrol ol the organization of 



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the Legislature ; the suit brought by the Manches- 
ter & Lawrence Railroad vs. the Concord Railroad 
corporation, growing out of the operation of the 
Lawrence Railroad by the Concord, from 1856 to 
1887 ; the protracted litigation between the Boston 
& Maine and the Concord iV' Montreal Railroad, 
prior to the consolidation of the two systems ; in 
the suit of Pike vs. the New Hampshire Trust 
Company, in\-ol\ ing the lease of the land on which 
the Kennard building, in Manchester, was erected. 
He was leading counsel for the Manchester & Law- 
rence road in the suit brought to recover claims of 
the state amounting to six hundred and fifty thou- 
sand dollars. He has made a special practice of 
corporation law, and has a large corporation client- 
age. Mr. Branch was appointed United States 
District Attorney for the District of New Hamp- 
shire, bv President Cleveland, March 15, 1894, and 
held the office four years. He was Moderator for 
the town oi W'eare from 18S4 to 1892. He is 
Vice-President of the New Kngland Association 
of the HamiJton College Alumni, and of the New 
Kngland Association of the Delta l^psilon Frater- 
nity. He is also a member of the Phi I'.eta Kappa 
Society, and of the Delta ITpsilon, of Hamilton 
College. He lias always been a Democrat, and 
has taken an active part on the stump in every 
campaign since the presidential election in 1868. 
He was permanent Chairman of the Democratic 
State Convention, of New Hampshire, in 1892. 
Mr. Branch married at W'eare, October 17, 187S, 
Sarah M. Chase. 'I'hey have four children : Oliver 
W'inslow. Dorothy Witter, I'rederick William, and 
Randolph Wellington Branch. 

CHFNKY, I'KRsoN Coi.BV, Ex-Governor, E^x- 

Senator, and Kx-Minister to Switzerland, Manches- 
ter, was horn in I Inlilcrness, New Hampshire, l''eb- 
ruary 25, 1828, son of Moses Cheney, a well known 
paper manufacturer. He comes of good old New 
{■'.ngland stock. Mr. Cheney attended the acade- 
mies at Peterborough and Hancock, New Hamp- 
shire, and I'arsonlield, Maine. He early became 
acquainted with the details of the paper business, 
and in 1847 assumed the management of the paper 
mill at Peterborough. In 1854 he became a mem- 
ber of the firm of Cheney, Hadley & Gowing. He 
removed to Manchester in 1866, becoming a dealer 
in paper stock and manufacturers' supplies, and 
also engaged in the paper manufacture at Goffs- 
town. New Hampshire, as a member of the firm of 
Cheney i<; Thorpe. He is now at the head of the 



P. C. Cheney Company. Mr. Cheney early became 
interested in politics, and represented the town of 
Peterborough in the Legislature in i853-'54. He 
entered ardently into the events of i86o-'6i and 
zealously aided and promoted the preparation of 



i 




I'. I . I UENEV. 

the State for the struggle to maintain the I'nion. 
In due time he oftered his personal services, and 
in .\ugust, 1862, was appointed Quartermaster of 
the Thirteenth Regiment. Colonel A. F. Stevens. 
Mr. Ciieney was taken seriously ill in January, 
1863, and after three months' sickness was com- 
pelled to resign, but he sent a substitute to the ser- 
vice. He was a Railroad Commissioner for three 
years. Shortly after renHi\ing to Manchester, he 
became prominent in the Republican part}', and 
was elected Mayoi' ai the city in 1872, one of the 
marked features of his successful administration 
being the introduction of the fire alarm telegraph 
system. He declined a renomination as Mayor, 
but was elected Governor, i875-'76. Governor 
Cheney was ajjpointed United States Senator in the 
fall of 1S86, to fill the imexpired term of Austin 
F. Pike, .md in 1888 he was one of the delegates at 
large to the l\e|i\il)li(an National Convention. He 
was chosen a memher of the Republican National 
Committee to succeed the Hon. E. H. Rollins, was 
re-elected in 1892 and still holds the position. In 
December, 1892, President Harrison appointed him 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



8S 



Envoy Extraordinary and Minister I'lcnipotcntiary 
to Switzerland, which post hv iiekl until Junejc), 



iS9- 



Mr. t'henev was one of the 1 )irectors of the 



Peterborough Mank at the time he renio\'ed to Man- 
chester, and has been President of the Peoples' 
Saving.s Hank of Manchester since its organization 
in 1S74. He is a member of the Altemont Lodge, 
Free and Accepted Masons ; of Peterborough 
Chapter, No. 12, Royal Arch Masons; of 1'eterbor- 
(}Ugh Lodge, No. 15, Lidependent ( )rdei- of < )dd 
Fellows; of Louis Pell Post, Grand Arni) of the 
Republic; of the Massachusetts Loyal Legion, and 
of the Army of the Potomac. Li 1S72 he was 
elected a Trustee of Pates College, and founded a 
scholarship in that institution. At the close of his 
gubernatorial service, DartuKiuth College conferred 
upon him the degree of A. M. Although he has 
always been a liberal contributor to many religious 
organizations, his membershiia is with the I'nitarian 
Society. Ah'. Cheney married Ma)' 22. 1S50, S. 
Anna, daughter of Samuel Morrison Moore of liron- 
son, l\Lchigan, who died January 7, 1858. He 
married Lme 29, 1859, ^''"^- ■'^^n'-^'i (^^'hite) Keith, 
daughter of Jonathan \\'hite, one of the earliest 
manufacturers of Lowell. Mrs. Cheney has been a 
leader in Manchester's society for years, and both 
her public and private charities are numerous. l"'or 
twenty years she has been President of the 
Women's Aid and Relief Society of Manchester. 
Governor Cheney has one child, Agnes Anna, liorn 
October 22. 1869, now the wife of Charles H. Fish, 
Agent of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company of 
Hover, New Hampshire. His grandchildren are, 
Sarah Cheney Fish, born Ahiy 10, 18S9; Mary 
Jarvis Fish, born June 30, 1890, and Agnes Cheney 
Fish, born January 30, 1897. 



was a clothier. His son, Francis, was a Colonel in 
the Revolutionarv W'.ir ; and his grandson, I'rancis, 
was a manufacturer who, moving to North Hillerica 
in iSi I, founded the l-'.iulkner Mills, which are 
still operateil. The fuurtli I'rancis was a manufac- 
turer at Acton, and, nii)\ing to Keene in 1817, 
began the manufacture (if \\i miens, forming, with 
Josiah Colon)-, the tirm of l-aulkner c\: Colony. 
This business is still carrietl on by members of 
both families. His son, l-'rancis A., lived in 
Keene, and was a lawyei' in ;ictive practice from 
i84() until Ins de.itli, in 1871). The subject of this 
sketch received his education in the schools of 
Keene, and at I'hilliiis I'^.xeter Academy, and was 
graduated from Harvard College in 1874. He was 
admitted to the liar in August, 1877. and has 
practiced in Keene e\er since that time. He 
served as ludge Advocate General on the Staff of 
(jovernor Bell in 1881, was a member of the Legis- 
lature in 1889, has been President of the Board of 
Education for the last six years, and was a memlier 
of the Governor's ('ouncil for the Third District in 
i895-'96. hi politics he has always been a Re- 




FAULKNER, Fr.^ncis Chii.h, Lawyer, Keene, 
was born in Keene, November 23, 1852, son of 
Francis .Augustus and Caroline (Handerson) l-'aulk- 
ner. He is descended, in the eighth generation, 
from l'',dward l-'aulkner, who came from Kingsclere, 
England, and purchased the town of Anflo\er from 
the hidians about ir)43,;in<l was one of the two 
founders of the church there in 1645. Ednumd's 
son, l''rancis, married Abigail Hane of Ando\er, 

who was tried, and condemned to death, as a witch. luiblican. ^h■. I'aulkner was maiiiet 
His son, Anmiruhanmah, moved to Acton, Massa- 1880, to Martha liarrett Ripley; the\ 
chu,setts, in 1731;, and bought the l''aulkner home- children: l''rancis Piarrett, born Jul\' 
stead, which still stantls near the South .Acton rhili|i I landerscm, burn .M:iy3o, 1883. 
railroad station. lie luiill the mills Iherc', and rinr l\i|iley I'aulkni-r, In un J,uiu;iry ',0, 




KRANCIS C. I'Ain.KM'.k 



, June 30, 

ha\e three 

13, 1881 ; 

;ind Katha- 
|8,S9. 



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CHRISTIE, Morris, Physician. Antrim, was admitted to the Par in November, 1875, at Ply- 
born in that town, August 29, 1832. son of Josiah mouth, and the following year began practice in 



Warren and Mary (Hell) Christie. He comes of 
Scotch-Irish stock. He received an academical 
traininir in this state. He attended the Universitv 




MORRIS I'HRISTIF. 

of New York, and was graduated in March, 1859. 
For nearly a year after graduation lie was Assistant 
Physician in a charity hospital in New York. May 
I, i860, he removed to his native town, where he 
has since remained. He has taken a keen interest 
in the educational affairs of the town, and has 
been Superintendent of the Schools, and later a 
member of the School Hoard, He is a member of 
the Board of Water Commissioners of the precinct, 
and a Trustee of the Town Library. He married 
July 22, 1863, Susan S. Hill of Johnson, \'ermont. 



CURKll'-K. I'RANK I )tiNKi,EE, Lawyer, Canaan, 
was born in that town. October 30, 1853, son of 
Horace S. and Emma C. (Plastridge) Currier. His 
paternal grandfather was Nathaniel Currier, and 
his maternal grandfather Caleb Plastridge, M. D.. 
of East Lebanon. Mr. Currier was educated in 
the common .schools and at the academy in his 
native town, in the Concord (New Hampshire) 
High School, in Kimball Academy, at Meriden, 
New- Hampshire, and at Doctor Hixon's school 
in Lowell, Massachusetts, He studied law, was 



Canaan. He was a member of the Legislature in 
1879. Clerk of the State Senate in 1883 and 18S5, 
and President of the latter body in 1887, He was 
a 1 )elegate to the Republican National Convention 
in 1884, and Secretary of the Republican State 
Committee from 1882 to 1888, inclusive. In 1890- 
'94 he was Naval Officer of Customs at the Port of 
Boston. Mr. Currier is a Mason, a member of 
Social Lodge of Enfield, of St. Andrew's Chapter 
at Lebanon, and of .Sulli\an Connnandery at Clare- 
mont. New Hampshire. He also belongs to Mt. 
Cardigan Lodge, Knights of Pvthias, at Canaan, 




and is a member of the Massachusetts Club. He 
has been very active in politics, and in the cam- 
paigns of 1888, 1892, 1894, and 1896, took the 
stump for weeks in the interests of his party. Mr. 
Currier was married. May 31, 1890, to Adelaide 
Rollins Sargent. 



FOWLER. FiiwiN IliiRArio. .\rcliitect and Chief 
Draughtsman of the L'nited States Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey, Washington, District of Columbia, was 
born in South Newbury. New Hampshire, October 
20, 1856, son of George Franklin and Mahala 
Jane (Messer) Fowler. He traces his descent in 
the paternal line from I'liili]) Fowler, who came 



MEN <)1' PROGRESS. 



87 



over from Eiifjland in the M:iry and [olin in 1034. 
The hne being. Phihp, who married Mary Norton ; 
Joseph, married Martha Kimball; Joseph, married 
Elizabeth Heitton ; Josepli, married Susannah I ten- 
nis ; Richard, married Ruth C'hever ; Joshua ('he\ er, 
married Lydia Stearns ; Thomas, married Hetsey 
Stiles, and George l""ranklin, married Maliala [ane 
Messer, Mr. Eowler received his early eilucation 
in the common schools of l^radford and Washing- 
ton, New Hampshire. He attended Tuhhs I'nion 
Academy of W'asliington, and the New Hampshire 
Conference Seminary at 'I'ilton, New Hampshire. 
He was a graduate from the ( 'handler Scientific 
Department of Dartmouth College in 187.S; he was 
early in life ambitious to become a Ci\'il Engineer, 
and he had a thorciugh educatinn in his father's 
machine sh(i|)s in the use nf mat hinery for both 
wood and iron work, in \\hi( h he found it of great 
service in all his undei takings. In his college 
course, his studies brouglit out the specialty of 
depot and bridge construction, and this led him into 
the study of architecture, which he has continued 
both in the studv and practice to the present time. 




l.IiWIN 11. I'llWI.F.R. 

some of the finest houses in the cit\- of Washington 
having been erected from liis plans. In 1879 after 
a competition of nearl\- a year, he was appointed a 
topographical draughtsman in the I'nited States 
Coast Ceodetic Siu'xcw and in a continuous compe- 



tition has achanced step by step, until in 1S97 he 
was made Chief Draughtsman of the L'nited States 
Coast Geodetic Survey, a position created for him. 
In iSr)[; and iSc/> he was Assistant I'rofessor in 
Columbia Cni\-ersity, giving instruction in topo- 
graphical drawing and lectures on architectural 
topography. He is a member of the Eta Eta 
Chapter and Washington Chapter of the Sigma 
Chi Fraternity, the National (Jeographic Society, 
the East \\'ashington Citizens" Association, in 
which he was Chairman of one of i's most im- 
portant committees, as well as a member of \ari- 
ous fraternal societies. Mr. I""owler was mar- 
ried Noxember 2. 1SS2, to Martha Jane Crockett, 
daughter of Arthur Crockett of Sanbornton, New 
Hampshire. 



H.\EL, D.ANiKL, Eawyer, Dover, was born in 
Harrington, New Hampshire, Eebruar\- 28, 1832, 
son of Gilman and Eliza (Tuttle) Hall. ( )n the 
paternal side he is descended from John Hall, who 
came to Do\'er in 1649, and who was the hrst Dea- 
con (if the Eirst Church established in New Hamp- 
shire. He was a farmer. .Surveyor of Lands, Town 
Clerk, and Trial Justice. ( )n the maternal side Mr. 
Hall traces his descent from John Tuttle, a resi- 
dent of Dover, and Judge of the Superior Court for 
juany years prior to 1700. tiilman Hall, father of 
the subjei t of this sketch, was in the fifth genera- 
tion in tliiect lineal descent from John Hall. 
Daniel Hall attended the c<imnion schools at Har- 
rington, the Strafford .\cademy, and the Northfield 
Conference Seminary. He was graduated from 
D.irtmouth College in the class of i8t;4. In May, 
i860, he was admitted to the Strafford County liar. 
As a boy he had worked on his father's farm, and 
a little later taught the district school. His law- 
studies were carried on in the office of the Hon. 
Daniel M. Christie of Dover. Mr. Hall's life has 
been one of acti\ity. He engaged in liie practice 
of law, saw much service in the war, and was fre- 
quently called upon in the political campaigns. He 
was School Commissioner of Strafford count}- in 
i859-'6o, w-as Secretary of the Committee on Naval 
Aft'airs, Lhiited States Senate, i86i-'62, was Cap- 
tain in the United States Arm\- in the War of the 
Rebellion, i862-'64; was Provost Marshal, l''irst 
District of New Hanipshire, i864-'65 ; w.is Clerk of 
the Supreme |udicial Court of Strafford county, 
i865-'74; I udge of the I'olire ('ourt in Dover, 
i868-'74, i876-'77; Chairman of the .\r\\ llamp- 
shire Deli-gation to the Republican National Con- 



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MEN OF PROCRESS. 



vention ;it {'iiuinnali. 1.S76; Slnte Reporter of judi- 
cial Decisions. i876-"77 ; Naval Officer of the Port 
of lioston. i877-"S6; 'I'rustee of the Strafford Savings 
P.ank. from iSS^ to date ; Trustee and Secretary of 
the Soldiers' Home from 1889 to date; Department 




home' in consequence of his father's illness and 
death, terminating his studies in this direction and 
thus frustrating his lifelong aml)ition. He went in- 
to the war while a verv V"ung man. enlisting in the 
Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment, November 8, 
i8(')2, and served under (General lianks for nine 
months, being mustered out of service August, 1863. 
After the war he went to JelTerson and engaged in 
farming on the slopes of Cherry Mountain, and was 
also engaged in lumbering, and buying and selling 
horses and cattle. He has been a Selectman of 
Jefferson and also represented that town in the Gen- 
eral ('(lint. In October. 1S89. he removed from 
JelTerson to Whitefield. still maintaining his farm, 
and in the latter place has served as Coimty Com- 
missioner for four years. Mr. Oarland is a Direc- 
tor of the Whitefield Bank and 'I'rust ("ompany, of 
the Maine Condensed Milk Company, and one of 
the owners of the Whitefield Manufacturing Com- 
pany. He is an influential member and Manager 
of the Saco N'alley Lumber Compan)-. one of the 
largest concerns operating in the state, possessing a 
mountain railroad and conducting three stores at 



1).\N1KI. IIAI.L. 

Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
i892-'93; 'I'rustee of the Dover Public Library. 
1895 to date ; Trustee of Berwick Academy from 
1895 to date, and Director of the Strafford National 
Bank from 1897 to date. He is a member of the 
Grand .\rmv of the Republic, of the Loyal Legion 
of the United States, of the New Hampshire Histo- 
rical Society, and the Kar Association of Southern 
New Hampshire. In politics he is a Republican. 
Mr. Hall has made nianv public addresses on sub- 
jects political, military, lilerarw and miscellaneous. 
A volume entitled "Occasional Addresses" was 
published by him in 1892. He was married Janu- 
ary 25. 1877. to Sophia Dodge of Rochester, New 
Hampshire. 'I'hey have one son. Arthur \\'elles- 
ley ILill, born August 30, 187S. 




I'.KNJAMIN ^■. CARI.ANIl. 

Ci.\ l\I,-\\ 1 ). DiCiNjAMiN Ci;.MMiN(;s. Lumberman. 

Whitefield, was born in Bartlett, Carroll County. ]!artlett. and one at Hart's Location. Mr. Garland 

New Hampshire, April 12. 1845. son of Alexis and in politics is a Democrat. On ^L^rch 11, 1869, he 

Nancy (Cmnmings) Garland. He received iiis was married to Kmily Damon, of Carroll, New 

early education in the public schools of Carroll Hampshire. They have one daughter. F^nuiia A. 

county. He began the study of law, but was called Garland, born July 19, 1S83. 



MEN or i'Roc;r?:.s.s. 



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ELDER, t'HARLES Brown, Pastor of the L?nita- 
rian Church at Keene, was liorn in Portland, 
Maine, Feliruaix- 16, iS::;6, son of .Samuel and 
Sarah Smith (Kimhall) Elder. Me traces his 
descent, on his mother's side, fiom Ani;ustine |ean. 




On October 27, iSSo. he married Ahnira Adie 
I'rown. of Pro\idenee. klmde Island. Three chil- 
dren ha\e Keen Ik. in In ihem : Marion, Chri.stine, 
and Maijorie l^lder. 



(ilENEVN. C'ii.\Kr,F,s Si,f.i.;|'i-;r. I'lusieian. Sun- 
cook, was born at Eake Village, (iilford. New 
Hampshire. Octolier 25. 1.S73, son of Noah C. and 
Ellen Mary (Sleeper) Cilnian, He is descended in 
the paternal line from lulw.ird (iilm.in. who came 
from Norfolk county. I'.ngiand. in Mav, 1670, and 
sealed in ningh.nn, and fnnn him most of the Gil- 
mans of this section are descendetl. The line is 
traced. I'^dward, Sr., |ohn, |iihn Sonnnerbee, Som- 
merbee. Lieutenant lohn. .Xu.di W., Noah C. and 
Charles S. Cdlnian. I )r. Cilm.in attended the 
pulilic schools of Lake \'illaye and Laconia. and 
'I'illon Seminar) . After graduating at Tilton Sem- 
inar}-, he (lid reijortorial work on Manchester LTnion 
and New Hampshire Republican (now defunct), 
and worked in \arious stores in Lakeport, to 
get funds tn enable a |_nnsuance of the stud)' of 
medi( inc. He studied in the University of Ver- 




j««r «!.* 




CHARLKS li. EI.DKR. 

better known as |ohn ( aistin. su|)posed to have 
been a French Huguenot. His father was a 
builder, and served on the School Committee of 
Portland, and also as ( )\erseer of the Poor. Mr. 
Elder was educated in the Primary, Grammar, and 
Higii schools of his native place, graduating from 
the latter in 1873. He entered Brown University 
and was graduated in 1877. He then spent three 
years at Harvard I)i\inity .School, from which he 
was graduated in 1880. He was Pastor of the 
Unitarian Church at Neponset, Massachusetts, and 
at South Boston, Massachusetts, before settling in 
Keene, in October, 1889. During ^L'. Elder's 
ministry in Keene, a new church has been built by 
the society, with a seating capacity of five hundred. 
The church is one of the largest Unitarian bodies 

in the state, and is in a most prosperous condition. (iiykiKs s on man 

While in South I'.oston, Mr. Elder interested him- 
self in the work of the Associated Charities, being mont at Kurlinglon. at Tufts Coll 
for several years President of the local branch. School at lioston, and graduated frc 
He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa l''raternity. more, Medical College .April 22. 1896. 
He has enjoyed two trips to lun'o|)e, visiting l''.ng- practical experience in his pidfcssion 
land. S((itland. Holland, C.ermanv. and h'rance. land General llipspilal ,it P.illimore, 



lege Medical 
)m the Halli- 
1 le gained 
at the l\Liry- 
and with I )r. 



(,o 



MEN OF I'RnCRESS. 



W. T. Slayton in IJoston. After taking his degree, 
he settled in Lakeport, removing to Suncook in 
February, 1897, and taking the office of the late 
Dr. G. H. Larrabee. He has been successful in 
his new field and is enjoying a steadily increasing 
practice. While in his junior year at Tufts Col- 
lege, Dr. ('jilnian was editor from the Medical Col- 
lege of the lirown and Blue, the Tufts Junior class 
annual. Dr. (ulnian is Examining Physician for 
the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New- 
York, and the Phcinix Mvitual of Connecticut. He 
is a member of the W'innipesaukee Academy of 
Medicine, of the New Hampshire Medical Society 
and Pembroke Grange. A member of the Gamma 
Chapter of Alpha Kappa Kappa of Tufts College. 



HAYES, Charles Carroll, Dealer in Real Es- 
tate and Fire Insurance Agent, Manchester, was 
born in New London, New Hampshire, May 31. 
1855, son of John .M. and Susan E. (Carr) Hayes. 
In the paternal line he is of Scottish descent, and 
in the maternal, of English. The Hayes family 
have resided in New London for a great number of 




CHARLKS C. HAVKS. 



years. Mr. Hayes attended the district schools of 
New London and Salisburv and the Hiirh School of 



Company, who conducted a general store, and re- 
mained with them about three years. He then 
went into business for himself, buying a grocery 
and meat store, which he conducted for between 
three and four years, and sold out in November, 
1884. .At that time he took up the real estate and 
insurance business, which he has continued ever 
since. He has been very active in promoting the 
commercial interests of the city, and for two years 
was President of the Manchester Board of Trade. 
He is a Thirty-third degree Mason, has held all the 
offices in his lodge, council, and commandery. and 
has been Grand Master and Grand Commander of 
the state. In politics Mr. Hayes is a Democrat. 
He has long been a member of the (iranite State 
Club, and has served as its Treasurer and Presi- 
dent. For many years he has been Treasurer of 
the Democratic City committee. He was twice 
given his party's nomination for Mayor of Man- 
chester, and made a gallant fight against long odds. 
Mr. Hayes was married January i, 1885, to Belle 
J. Kennard. daughter of John and Hannah B. Ken- 
nard of Manchester, who died July 31, 1890, He 
has three children, John Carroll, Louise K. and 
Annie Ik-lle Haves. 



HILDRETH. David Mkrrii.l, Draughtsman of 
the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, in 
Washington, District of Columbia, w-as born in 
Haverhill, New Hampshire, January 15, 1862, son 
of Sylvester Lvnian and Teressa \'erona (Nelson) 
Hildreth. In the paternal line lie is descended 
from Richard Hildreth, the line being: Richard, 
Joseph, Ephraini, Simeon, Ephraim, Simeon, and 
Sylvester Hildreth, who came from England about 
1635, and settled first in Cambridge and afterwards 
in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Simeon (first) set- 
tled in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, in 1758. 
Ephraini (second) was a soldier in the Revolution- 
ary War, and took an active part in the Battle of 
Saratoga and in the capture of Burgoyne. He, 
with his son, the grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, settled in Haverhill about 1810. In the 
maternal line he is descended from Thomas and 
Joan Nelson, who came from Yorkshire. England, 
in 163S, with Reverend Ezekiel Rogers, and set- 
tled in kowley, Massachusetts. The line in this 
case being : Thomas. Philip, Joseph, Joseph, Ste- 
phen, Jonathan, and Teressa Nelson. Stephen 



Manchester, to which city he removed when he was settled in Salisbury, New Hampshire, in 1773. 
fourteen years old. Upon leaving the High School Mr. Hildreth attended the common schools and 
he entered the employ of John M. Chandler & Haverhill Academy, from which he was graduated 



MKN OF PR0GRF:SS. 



9' 



in the class of 1883. He trmk the degree of ]!. S. going" into law iir business. Mr. llikhetli is a 
from Dartmouth in the class of 1S87. and received member of the ISeta 'i'heta I'i, a College Greek 
the degree of M. S. from Dartmouth in 1894. His Letter I'raternitv, and of the Association of Anieri- 



early life was spent on a farm, and he taught 
school to secure the means to attend the academy 




can Draughtsmen. He is a Republican and has 
taken an acti\e interest in New Hampshire affairs, 
and maintains a legal residence in Hanover, going 
there to vote. ( )n January 1, 18S9. he was married 
to Cleora Helena, daughter of Vernaus and Louisa 
(Thompson) DeCoster of lUickheld, Maine. Among 
her ancestors are f'l'ancis Cook of the Mayflower. 
and John Thomson, who came to I-'lymouth in 162J. 
They have one child: Ruth Cleora Hildreth, born 
October 13. i8i)2. 



HKRSKV. fKi;i. K.. Lumber Merchant. Wolf- 
boro, was born in tii.U town. .Scptemljer 23. 1S62. 
son of Winthrop D. and Ceorgiana (Guptill) Hersey. 
His father was a son (jf Jonathan Hersey who set- 
tled in Wolfboro about 1 785. where Winthrop D. 
Hersey was born. Ills mother was a daughter of 
Abram Guptill of llcrwick. Maine. The subject of 
this sketch was educated in the public schools of 
his nati\e place. After leaving school he became 



li.Wm M. llllliKEI'H. 

and college. He studied for the profession of a 
civil engineer, and after leaving college he was 
with the late Professor !■',. 'J', (^uimby about a year, 
on the New Hampshire and ^h^ssachusetts Bound- 
ary Survey. Besides doing held work, he executed 
the maps of that survey. Then for a lime he was 
with the i'utnam Machine Company of l-'itchburg. 
Massachusetts. He went to Washington and took 
the Civil .Service Examination in ( )ctober, 18S8. 
for a position as Draughtsman (Cartogiaphical) in 
the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, this 
being the first examination held after this ISureau 
was put under the Ihiited States Ci\il Service. 
He was successful and received the appointment a 
month later, November 30. i88,S. This position he 
has held ever since. In addition to the work of 
this department, he studied law. being graduated 
from the National University Law School in 1895. 

He took the degree of LL. .M. from the Columbian an employee in a shoe fact( 
University I, aw School in i,S96. and was admitti-d in the lumber business in \\ 
to the I'.ar of the Supreme Court of the District of with Frank I'',. Hersew uni 
Columbia Jul\- _• of that year, ll is his intention llc-rsev lirothers. In i.S.Sj 
in later years to return to New 1 lani|)sliire. eitln'r mill at Wolfboro Falls ,ind r 




FKKIl K. IiKRSl;\. 



iry. .ind 1 
.ilfboro. i 
ler the U 
the\' bouL 
in il unt 



Ui-r engaged 
n partnership 
rm name of 
;lil the w.iler 
il I ."^v,^- "lien 



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MKN OF I'ROC.RKSS. 



tliL-y sold it and l)uill ii steam plant on Rocky 
Point, between the okl mill and Wolfhoio proper. 
This latter mill is still in operation, making general 
building material. Mr. Mersey was elected one of 
the Selectmen of Wolfhoro, in 1892, and since 
1894 has been Chain^ian of the board of Selectmen. 
He was previous to his being Selectman for four 
years Supervisor of the checklist of the town. In 
politics he is a Republican and is active in the in- 
terests of the party. He is a member of Morning 
Star Lodge, No. 17. I'"ree and .Accepted Masons. 
Mr. Mersey was married January i, 1S90, to Anna 
M., tiaughter of Kdward Macdonald of Boston. 
'I'hey have one daughter: Etta M. Hersey, born 
August 31. 1897. 



MINER, Fr.\i\cis Mannii;.\i.. Physician, \\'ash- 
ington, District of Columbia, was born in Philadel- 
phia, PennsyUania. |ul\- 14, t864, son of John 
ITannibal and Mar_\' Thomas (Jacobs) Miner. On 
the paternal side he is of l''rench-(ierman descent, 
and on the maternal of Scotch-(ierman. Although 
a native of Pennsylvania, and now a resident of 




I'U.XNl I^ 11. MIM'.R. 



Washington, a very large share of Doctor Miner's 
life has been spent in this state. His early educa- 
tion was gained in the public schools of Philadel- 
phia, and in 1877 he began his career as a printer 
in the office of Henry <'. ("ontes of that city. He 



removed to Concord, this state, some years later, 
and went to work as compositor in the office of the 
Monilcjr and Statesman in 1886. Three years 
later he became Foreman in the news room of the 
People and Patriot. This position he resigned to 
accept the I''oremanship of the new'S room of the 
Monitor and Statesman, March 25, 1890. .\bout 
two years later he began the study of medicine with 
Dr. Clark of Concord. In October, 1892, he went 
to VN'ashington, completing the regular course in 
medicine in the Georgetown Medical College, being 
graduated in May, 1895. Since that time he has 
been successfully engaged in private practice in 
Washington. He is Vice-President of the Wash- 
ington Medical and .Surgical Society. In politics. 
Doctor Miner is a Republican. He is unmarried. 



JEWELL, D.wiii LvM.^N, Agent of the Three 
Corporations, Suncook, was born in Taniworth, 
New Hampshire, January 26, 1837, son of lirad- 
hury and Lucinda (Chapman) Jewell. His great- 
grandfather, Mark Jewell, was born in England in 
1724. came to this coimtry in 1743. settling in Dur- 
ham, and died in Sandwich, I'elirnary 19. 1787. 
His eldest son, Mark, was the first white man to 
settle in Tam worth, in 1772. He was called 
"Priest" and ••l-'.lder" Jewell. Me married Ruth 
\ittum and they had sixteen children, one of whom, 
Uradbury, was the grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch. When the latter was about two years of 
age, his parents removed to Newmarket, and his 
father dying there, his mother again removed to 
Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts. Here he 
attended the common schools and Wilbraham 
Academy, and later entered the State Normal 
School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, from which 
he was graduated in February, 1855. He taught 
school in XN'estfield. New Jersey, at Freehold (New 
Jersey) Academy, and in Barstow's private school, 
Newton, Massachusetts. He studied engineering 
with R. .Morris Copeland and Charles H. F"olsom 
in Boston, but gave up practicing his profession 
when the war broke out. While at Newton he 
was draughtsman for the mills at Suncook and 
Pembroke, New Hampshire, and in 1868 removed 
to the former place as Superintendent of the mills. 
Upon the death of the Agent, he was given charge, 
and when the ("hina mill was started he took the 
same position there, and since 1870 has been 
Agent of the three corporations. He is a mend)er 
of the New England Cotton Manufacturers" Asso- 
ciation and of the Norfolk (Massachusetts) Club. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



93 



ton. He is a 'J'hirty-seconcl ilci;i-ee Masnn. a iiK-ni- 
bfi' of luwell Lodge, Suncook, wliirli was naiiiecl for 



He was Aitle-ile-Oaiiip with tlu' rank of Colonel on scliools. and was lilted fur ll.ir\ard. He did not 
Governor Head's Stafi, and is a nieiiiher of the enter college, ho\ve\er, and instead of remaining at 
Ancient and Honorable .Artillery ('oni]3any of I'.os- his books, enlisted in the I'nion .\rniy, at the age 

of sixteen. lie ser\ed as |iri\ate in tlie I'ifth 
Massachusetts Regiment, during the war. At its 
close he studied law and was admitted to the Mas- 
sachusetts liar, Ma\- 8, iSdS, and the New Hamp- 
shire Har, A|.iril, 1S7.S. He practiced his profes- 
sion with success in ISoston, Washington, and Con- 
cord. In i<S82, he gave up law for newspapei' 
work. For several years he was connected with 
the New York Herald and Tnistiin Globe. In 18SS, 
he became Editor of the Portsmouth 'i'imes, and its 
weekly edition. The States and Union. In 1893, he 
purchased the plant, and has since then given it 
his initlixided .itteiitiun, m.d<ing the paper of wide 
circulation and of great inHuence in the state. He 
was elected a member of the Governor's Council in 
1892, resigning the position a \eai' later to accept 
the position of Collector "t ( 'ustoms for the Dis- 
trict of New Hampshire inuler President Cle\eland, 
a position he held fnur \ears and four months. In 
politics he has always been a Hemocrat. In 1896, 




n.WIli I,. JEWELL. 

him; of Trinity Chapter ; Horace Chase Council; 
Mt. Horeb Commandery ; ISoston Lodge of Per- 
fection; Giles F.Yates Council; Princes of Jeru- 
salem ; Mt. Olivet Chapter, Rose Croi.x ; Massa- 
chusetts Consistory, and Aleppo Temple, Ancient 
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In 
August, i860, Mr. Jewell married Mary A., daugh- 
ter of Ephraim Grocer of Newton, Massachusetts, 
who died October 16, 1863. He mariied. May 31, 
1865, Ella Louise, daughter of Lewis .Sunuier of 
Needham, Massachusetts. 



NORRIS, True I.ivincston, Editor of the 
Times, Portsmouth, was born in M:inchester, New- 
Hampshire, May 4, 1848, son of Arlhin- 1''. L. ;in(l 
Olive \V. (Wallace) Norris. I'or more th;in two 
and one-half centuries the Norris f;unil\- has been 
jjrominent in the social, political and business life 
of New Hampshire, several of the ancestors of tin- 
subject of this sketch serving in the I''rench and 
Indian Wars, the War of tlu- Rc\ ohition. .uul the 
War of 1S12. Mr. Norris ;ittc-iidcd tlu- public 




TRIIE I,. NOKRIS. 

he was c:hosen the New I l.inipsliirr nuuiber nt the 
I )t'nu)cratic National Conuuiltee, ;ind still holds 
the position. He is ;dsii a nundier of the state, 
county, city, and waid I )rin()( r.itic committees, 
h'rom his bo\-hi>od he has taken a ver\- livel\- inter- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



est in political affairs. Mr. Xorris is a Mason, and 
Odd Fellow, an Flk, and a member of the (^rand 
Army. He was married .May 20, i8go, to Lilian d. 
Hurst, of Fliot. .Maine. 



.MARTIN, N..\TH,\NiKi. Everktt, Lawyer, Con- 
cord, was born in Loudon, New Hampshire, Au- 
gust 9, 1855, son of Theophilus B. and Sarah L. 




N.\1HANIEL E. M.ARTIN. 

(Rowell) Martin. He was educated in the common 
schools of Loudon and Concord, and later studied 
law in the office of Sargent & Chase in Concord. 
He was admitted to the Har August 14, 1879. 
Since May, 1885, he has been a partner of John 
H. Albin. He was Solicitor of Merrimack county 
from July i, 1887, to July i, 1889. Mr. Martin 
takes an active interest in agricultural pursuits, 
particularly in stock breeding. He is extensively 
engaged in real estate and other business opera- 
tions. 



NASON, Wii.i.i.'VM FRANt;is, Lawyer, Dover, was 
born in Sanford, Maine, November 22, 1857, son of 
Joseph T. and Susan (Frost) Nason. His father 
was interested in educational matters, was Princi- 
pal of several leading schools, and later in life 
engaged in navigation, being master of yessels in 
the foreign trade. His grandfather, Daniel Nason, 
was a shipbuilder and owner. William F". Nason 



attended schools in South ISeiwick and Kennebunk, 
Maine, being graduated from the High School of 
the latter place, wjiere for two years he studied law, 
subsequenllv continuing his legal studies with Hue! 
C. Carter of Wolfboro, New Hampshire. Being 
admitted to the Bar in 1879. he removed to Dover, 
and formed a law^ partnership with Mr. Carter. 
He was chosen City Solicitor in 1883 and again in 
1884, serving in all seven years in that capacity. 
He was a number of the legislature in i887-'88, 
serving on the J udiciary Committee and as Chair- 
man of the Committee on Elections, taking an 
active part in the work of the House, and winning 
a reputation as an able debater. In 1892, he was 
elected County Solicitor by a flattering majority, 




Uil.l.IAM 1\ NASC)X. 

and in 1894 and again in i,S(/i was re-elected. In 
1891;, he was nominated for Mavor of Dover, and 
elected without opposition, receiving in 1896, a 
re-election to the office. Mr. Nason enjoys great 
popularity with his fellow citizens, and has very 
successfully administered the public trusts placed 
in his hands. 



PAGE, Samuel Berkley, Lawyer, W'oodsville, 
was born in Littleton. New Hampshire, June 23, 
1838, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Berkley) 
Page. In the paternal line he is of English stock, 
and on the maternal of Scotch. He received his 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



95 



early education at the Kiiiijston (New 1 lanipshire), 
Lyndon (\'ernii>nt I. and Mclndoes l''alls ( \eriiiont) 
Academies. He studied law at the Alliany Law 
School, from which he was graduated in .\pril. 
1861. at whicli time he was admitted tn the liar. 
Prexidus to his studies at Alisanx' he had read law 
at the office of Woods ^; ISinghams, Littleton, from 
iS57-'6o. He began the practice of his profession 
in Warren, New Hampshire, in August, 1861, but 
in 1871 removed to Concord. Sexen \ears later he 
removed to Woods\-ille, where he has since resided. 
In 1868, he received the honorary degree of A. M. 
from Dartmouth College. Mr. Page has held many 
town offices. He was Trustee of the State Normal 
School for eight years ; a member of the Constitu- 
tional Convention of 1876 ; a member of the House 
of Representatives in i864-"(.5-'(}(i-'67-"68-'69-'7o-"83- 
'85-"87-'9i-'93 ; Chairman cif the Democratic State 
Committee in i87t-'76; and is now President of 
the New Hampshire Legislative Association. He 
is a member of the Benevolent and i'mtective 
Order of Elks, P. E. R.; of the Knights of Pythias. 
(;. I. (;.; of the Independent Order of Odd Eel- 





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SAMUKI. !■.. I'.VC.K. 

lows. I'. Ci. W.; Patriarchs Mint.mt, Lieutenant 
Colonel; of the Independent Order of l-'oresters, 
and Red Men; is a Knights Templar, a 'i'hirty- 
second degree Mason, and is conneited with other 
societies. In poliiics he has always beiai a Demo- 



crat, and an active one. He has participated in 
council and upon the platform since 1863. During 
all that time, he has been a member of the State 
Committee, and has declared the faith in nearly 
every town in New Hampshire, as well as cam- 
paigning in \'ermont and Maine. Mr. Page is an 
ardent Episcopalian and for man)- years and now 
a member of tlie Diocesan convention. Mr. Page 
married in August, 1860, Martha C. Lang of Path, 
now deceased. ( )f his si.\ children, only one sur- 
vives, Martha S iphia Page. 



PLUMMER, Cii,\R[,Ks Henry, Agent of the 
Great E'alls Manufacturing Company, was born in 
Somersworth, New Hampshire, April 23, 1842, son 
of Eri G.. and Elizabeth (Kincaid) Plummer. He 
is of good old New England stock, being descended 
from Revolutionary heroes. He attended the com- 
mon schools and granunar school of his natix'e 
town. At an earlv age he began to gain practical 
experience in manufacturing, and soc)n made him- 
self master of e\er\' detail of importance in regard 
to the manufacture of cotton goods. He rose step 
bv step from the position of bobbin boy to that of 
agent for the corpoiation. The Great Falls Manu- 
facturing Companw in whose administration Mr. 
Plummer bears so impoitanl a |5art, was organized 
June II, 1823, with a charter capital of a half mil- 
lion dollars. It iibtained the privileges of Great 
Falls as well as those on both sides of the Salmon 
F'alls Ri\er, by purchase from Isaac Wendell of 
Dover, who had built some buildings for the manu- 
facture of cloth on land opposite the present rail- 
road station. In 1824 what is now the upper sec- 
tion of Mill No. I was built, and the next year 
the inanufactLUX' of woolen goods and carpets was 
started in a building standing near by. This branch 
of the company's manufactures was stopped in 1834. 
In 1826 the capital was increased to one million 
dollars, and in 1827 it was brought up to one mil- 
lion, Hve hunched thousand dollais, the present nomi- 
nal capital. In 1835 a new dam was built nearly 
opposite the present tloth room. In the same year 
a dam at Mast Point on the Salmon Falls was built 
and the storage at Milton was increased. Additions 
to the reservoirs were made in 1841, by the pur- 
chase of Cook's and Lovell's Ponds, and in 1851 
by the purchase of Home's ,nid Wilson's Ponds, 
and lati'r the Great East I'ond. thus gi\ing the 
company one of the linest watei pri\ ileges in the 
state with a flfiwage of more than li\e thons.uul 
acres. In 1842 tiie soulherl) section of Mill No. 3 



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MEN OF I'ROCRKSS. 



was built, in iS|5 tliL- northerly section, and in 
US53 the niiildle sectiim of the same mill was con- 
structed, while in 1.S71 the three were consolidated 
and a complete set of new machinery and turbine 
wheels was supplied. Improvements had been 
maile in the power, a one hundred and eighty 
horse-i)ower engine Inning been added, which was 
replaced in 1S72 In- a four hundred and fifty horse- 
power Corliss engine for reserve power. In ICS94 
and 1895 tile total horse power was increased to 
five thousand, bv twelve hundred horse power 
being steam in case of low water. In 1869 the 
present No. 2 mill was formed by the consolidation 
of old buildings, and this was furnished with new 



mandery. Knights Templar; of the Blue Lodge, 
Lewiston, Maine, and the chapter of Somersworth. 
In politics he is a Republican. He married July 5, 
18C8, Martha A. C.uptill. He has one son, Joseph 
(). Plummer. 




I n.v:^. II. I'l.i AiMi.i;. 

machinery and tinbines for power. In 1872 the 
stone dam on the upper level was built, and re- 
cently the bleachery has been made one of the 
largest in the country. As this record shows, the 
business of the company has steadily grown. There 
are now in the three large mills one hundred and 
twenty-six thousand spindles and three thousand 
looms in use, giving employment to si.xteen hun- 
dred hands of all grades, and paying out in wages 
each month forty thousand dollars. The fabrics 
manufactured are sheetings, shirtings, twills, drills, 
satteens. and fancy goods, Minot, Hooper \: Co.. 
Selling Agent, N'ew York and Boston. Mr. I'lum- 
mer is a Mason; a member of .St. Paul's Com- 



PRRKINS, Gkorc.e Hamii.ton, Commodore (re- 
tired) United States Navy, of Webster and Boston, 
was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, ( )ctober 
20, 1835, son of Hamilton Eliot and Clara Bartlett 
(George) Perkins. In the paternal line he is de- 
scended from the Rev. William Perkins, who came 
from England and settled in Topsfield, Massachu- 
setts, early in the seventeenth century. On his 
mother's side he is descended from John George 
who settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, and he is 
also a great-great-grandson of Captain lienjamin 
Emery of the Revolutionary Army. He was edu- 
cated at the Academies in Hopkinton and Gilman- 
ton, and by private tutors. For four years he was 
at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, being gradu- 
ated in 1856. and receiving his Midshipman's war- 
rant Octoljer I I . of that year. This proved to be 
the first step in a long and brilliant naval career. 
He was first ordered to the Cyane sloop of war, 
lull in lanuary, 1858, he was detached from that 
and ordered to the storeship Release, where he 
served as Acting Master, but was transferred in 
January, 18:^9, at Montevideo, to the Sabine. He 
received his Past Midshipman's warrant July 12, 
1859, and August 2 following, was ordered as Act- 
ing Master to the Cnited States steamer Sumpter 
for service on the west coast of Africa. He was 
.\cting Master, and afterwards acting Fir.st Lieuten- 
ant of this ship, which captiu'ed the shner I'al- 
mouth, and made the quickest passage on record 
from Africa to the Ignited States. September 8, 
1859, he was ap|)(iinted Master, and in Marih, 
1 86 1, was commissioned Lieutenant. In Decem- 
ber of that year he was ordered as First Lieutenant 
to the gimb<iat Cayuga of the West (Uilf Squadron 
under Conunodore l''arragut. On April 20, 1862, 
Captain Theodorus Bailey took the Cayuga for the 
fiagship for the division of gunboats assigned him, 
for the passage of the Forts Jackson and St. Phillip 
in the advance on New Orleans. The Cayuga led 
the advance and destroyed three gunboats, proceed- 
ing up the river and cutting the telegraph to pre- 
vent rebel eoiinnunication. and captured the Chal- 
mette regiment. Cpim the vessel's arri\al at New 
Orleans. LictUen.int Perkins went with Ca|)tain Bai- 
ley to deni.md the surrender of the city, in accom- 



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97 



plishing which task their Hvcs were in gveat danger. 
The Cayuga went to New \'ork for repairs, and 
then returned to the Mississippi, ascending the 
ri\er and engaging in a nunil)er of skirmishes. 
Lieutenant Perkins was ordered Jinie i8, 1862, in 
command of the New London, to convey powder 
to the Union troops at ?"ort Hudson. The duty 
was extremely dangerous, as the river lianks were 
hned with rebel batteries and sharpshooters, but 
the boat passed them successfulU' three times. ( )n 
the fourth trip she was riddled with shots and the 
boiler exploded. July 31, 1863, Lieutenant Per- 
kins was given command of the gunboat Seiota on 
blockade duty off the coast of Te.xas, and April 15, 
1864, he captured the blockade runner Mary Sorley 
loaded with cotton. He was detached fmni the 
Seiota in April, 1864, with leave to proceed north. 
He voluntered for the right in Mobile Pay. and was 
given command of the ironclad Chickasaw, enter- 
ing Mobile Hay on August 5, 1864, with Farragut's 
fleet. His ship took a prominent part in the attack 
on the Tennessee, shooting away her smokestack, 
wounding her commander, and hitting her with fifty- 
two shots, as shown by actual count. Her sur- 
render was attributed to the good work (}f the 
Chickasaw, which afterwards shelled l''orts Powell 
and Gaines, and compelled them to surrender, and 
made constant attacks on Fort Morgan, which sur- 
rendered August J4. Lieutenant Perkins remainei.1 
in command of the Chickasaw l)efore Mobile until 
luly 10. 1865. In November of that year he was 
appointed Superintendent of the ironclads at New- 
Orleans. May 17. 1866, he was ordered as execu- 
tive officer to the Lackawanna, Captain William R. 
Reynolds, which during her cruise in the North 
Pacific took possession of the Midway Islands for 
the United States. On Jime 2, 1869, Lieutenant 
I'erkins was ordered to the P>oston yard on ord- 
nance duty. He was appointed Connnander Janu- 
ary 215, 1871, and in March of the same year was 
given command of the ship Relief, which carried 
stores from the United .States to starving France. 
April 17. 1872, he was ordered as Lighthouse Li- 
spector for the second district. He was sent in 
February, 1877, to China, to take conun.nul of the 
Ashnelot. The chief event nf this tri]) was the use 
of his shi]) for the reception and entertainment of 
(Jeneral Grant and party on their visit to the East. 
On March 10, 1882, he was appointed Captain in 
the Navy by regular promotion. In ^Lly, 1884, 
Captain Perkins was ordeieil to connnand the 
Ilartfiird for a cruise in the Pacilic. lie retired 



from the service April 23. i8()i. Congress in rec- 
ognition of his long and brilliant record and his 
great gallantry, conferred upon him by special act 
in May, i8<)(i, the rank of Commodore, the ap- 
pointment dating from Ma\' i;th. The pa\' <if the 
rank was declined. ( 'onnnodore Perkins was mar- 
ried September 15, 1870, to Anna Minot Weld, 
daughter of William F. Weld of Poston, Massachu- 
setts. He has one tliild : Isaliel Weld, who is mar- 
ried to Larz Andeison. Ills present residences are 
at 125 Commonwealth ,\venue, lioston, Massachu- 
setts; I )e kham Cottage, Pellevue .\venue, New- 
port, Rhode Island, and \\ innepauket Farms, Web- 
ster, New Hampshire. He is a member of the 




CEORCK H. I'KRKINS. 

.\rmy and Navy and Metropolit.iii Clubs of Wash- 
ington, and of the L'nion, .Somerset and Country 
Clubs of Boston, the Military ( )r<k'r of the Loyal 
Legion, and the United States Military Historical 
Society of Massachusetts. 



PARKFK, Hknkn' Rusj, I'hysici.m, l)o\ei-, was 
born in \\'olfbf)ro. New Hampshiie. January 24, 
1836, son of lohn Tappan and SalK- l,e\itt (Seavey) 
Parker. He is of I'aiglish descent, and his ances- 
tors were very prominent in liie earl\- histor)- of 
the .state. He traces his descent to Willi.im I'ar- 
ker of Portsmouth, w hosi' son was M.Ulhew ,St,in- 
lev Parker of \\ 1 illJHiri 1, who was advisor of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the Governor at the time of the Revolutionary War. 
Doctor Parker is grandson of Henry Rust Parker 
who was a grandson of Matthew Stanley Parker. 
The Parker family have been very prominent on 
the bench in Rockingham county. Doctor Parker 
was educated in the common schools, and at W'olf- 
boro and Tuftonborough Academy, now Brew- 
ster Free .School, in his native town. He after- 
wards attended Darlmouth Medical College, and 
w^as graduated in iS66. Previous to his gradua- 
tion he taught for three years in the Wolfboro 
and Tuftonborough Academy and also taught in 
the High School at Farmington from 1859 to 1865. 
He served for eighteen years as Superintendent of 




1II;NR\" R. PARKER. 

Schools in his native town. I'.eginning practice in 
Wolfboro in tlie year of his graduation, he remained 
there until the year iS8r, when he removed to 
Dover where he has since resided. In politics 
Doctor Parker is a Democrat. In November, 1890, 
he was elected Mayor of the city against a large 
Republican majority and was re-elected the follow- 
ing year. He was President of the Dover Medical 
Society and of the Strafford County Medical Soci- 
ety, and a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
Society. He was President of the Board of 
Examining Surgeons for Strafford county during 
I'resident Cleveland's administrations. Doctor 
Parker was appointed Co-executor and Trustee 



under the will of Hiram Barker, late of Farming- 
ton, in which capacity as Trustee he still serves. 
He is a member of the Dover Historical Society ; 
a Thirty-second Degree Mason, and a member of 
St. Paul Conunandery. Doctor Parker married in 
1866, l''.lla Maria Thompson, of Wolfboro. They 
have had three children : Nathalie Sally and Alberta 
Thompson Parker now living, and Henry Rust 
Parker, deceased. 



!'( )\\ f^RS, \\ ii.iiiiR How.\Ri>, Lawyer, Boston 
and Hyde Park, Massachusetts, was born in Croy- 
don, New Hampshire, January 22. 1849, ^"^^ '^^ 
Elias and Emeline (White) Powers. On the pater- 
nal side he is of Norman descent. His first ances- 
tor of whom he has any record went from Nor- 
mandy to England with William the Conqueror, 
and was a commanding officer at the Battle of 
Hastings. At that time the name was Le Poer. 
It was later anglicized and called Poer, and still 
later was spelled I'cjwer and sometimes Poore. His 
first ancestor in this country was Walter Power, 
who came to Massachusetts soon after 1620, set- 
tling in Mitldlese.x county. His sons added (s) to 
the name and it has since been spelled Powers. 
Ezekiel Powers, great-grandfather of the subject 
of this sketch, mo\ed from Massachusetts to Croy- 
don, being among the first settlers of that place. 
He was noted for his strength of mind and body, 
and for his inventions, which included a side-hill 
plow, loop sled, sap pan, and other articles of use- 
fulness. Three of the great-grandfathers of Wilbur 
H. Powers ser\ed in the Revolution; the records 
at Concord, New Hampshire, show that Captain 
Joseph Taylor, a great-grandfather on his mother's 
side, was an officer in the Continental War and 
a Captain during the Revolutionar\' War; Ezekiel 
Powers was in the arni\' and the tradition is passed 
down from generation to generation that he was at 
the surrender of 15urgoyne. The third great-grand- 
father in the maternal line was in the Continental 
War and the War of the Revolution. Abijah Powers, 
son of Ezekiel Powers, was a Major in the War of 
1812. l'',lias Powers was a farmer, and held the 
position of Selectman of his town, County Com- 
missioner, and other offices. He was a man of 
great inriuence and was frequently consulted for 
advice on all subjects by his neighbors for many 
miles around. There is a branch of the Powers 
family in X'ermont. of wliicli Hiram Powers, the 
sculptor, and Congressman H. H. Powers are the 
most distinguished ; and in Maine, of which 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



99 



Governor Powers, tlic present exccnti\c, is tlic Ixst 
known. In tlif Xew A'ork branch are inLiiulcd the 
wife (if President Filhnore, and ( dn^ressnian (ues- 
li.ini I'liwers. A member of llie family nwned 
Powers fiill. one of the hills <m whieh the battle 
of Gettxsliur;; was fiiUL;ht. .ind lie w.is present at 
that battle. \Mlbnr H. Powers attended tiie public 
schools of ('rovtlon. spent one )'ear at ( )lean .Acad- 
emy, Olean, New ^'ork. and graduated fnim Kim- 
ball I'nioii .\cadenn' in 1S71. He took a re;;ular 
classical course at Dartmouth C'olle;;e and j;radu- 
ated in 1S75, In 1S78 he j;raduated from the 
Pioston I'niN'ersity School of Paw, bein,g admitted 
to the liar in Auirust of that \ear. In the course of 




WILHUK II. l'n\\ KRS. 

his professional career, he h.is lieen Connsel for 
the town of Hyde Park, for the ()ld Colon)- Kail- 
road, until it became a jjart of the ( 'onsolid.ited 
System, and for the New Haven Kailro.ul, 1.S94- 
'97 ; and has alw.ivs had a lari;e ;;ener,d |iractice 
since he opened his oHice in lioston, l.niu.iry 22, 
1870. He was a member of the Helt.i Kapjia 
Epsilon in collei;e and joined the .Masons in his 
.student days. He is .1 membei of the Su|)reme 
C'onnnaiulerv. I nited ( )rder Golden Cross; a 
Royal .\rch Mason. Poyal .\ii anuni. Royal Cood 
I''ellow, Society of the Sons .-ind llauL;hters of 
American Revohitiou, and a member ol the W'a- 
verlv Clnb, of which he was President, iSi^.j-Vj.S. 



In jiolitiis he has alwa\s been a Republican. He 
was a Representatixe of the town of Hyde Park in 
the General Court of .Massachusetts in i890-'9i- 
\)2 ; a mendier of the Republican .State Committee, 
i893-'94 ; ami ol the Kepublic.in Congressional 
Committee, 1887 -'97, and Presidential Elector in 
1897. He married, iMa\' 1, 1880. Emih' <)wen. 
He has two children, Walter antl M\ra Powers. 



PULSIFER, CiiAki i;s 1,ki;ii\, Mayor of Laco- 
nia, was born in P.dscijort. January 1, 1849, ^'"^ '-'^ 
L\-man IS. and Sarah (Sawyer) Pulsifer. His father 
for many }ears was a manufaiturer of yarns at 
Lakeport, and was a nati\e of (lilmanton, whither 
his grandfather remoxed from Prentwood in March, 
1795. The family was of -Scotch-Irish descent, 
having come to this country in 1766. In the mater- 
nal line Mr. I'nlsifer is descended from some of 
the earliest settlers of (b'Imanton, his grandfather, 
Isaac E. Sawyer, ha\ing been an extensive farmer 
of that place. Mr. I'nlsifer attended the public 
schools of Lake|:)ort, and the 'Pilton, New Hamp- 
shire, Seminary, and was graduated from Colliy 
Academy, New London, in 1874. He was gradu- 
ated from Prown Univeisit}', in the class of 1878. 
From 1879 ^" ''^94 '!•-' "'1^ I'rincip.d of the Lake- 
port High School and .Sn|)erintentlent of Schools. 
This position he resigned, and entered the Lake- 
port Savings Pank in i8c)5 as Nice-President and 
.Assistant Treasurer, |iositions he still holds. He 
has been a member of the Poartl of Education for 
Lakeport and Laconia almost constantly since 1S79, 
his present term e.\|)iring in njoi. l"'rom 1886 to 
1892 he was .Selectman ot Gilfoid, which then in- 
chided Lakeport. He was a Re|.iresentative in the 
Legislature in i8()o-'i)i. He is a I )ireetor in the 
Lakeport Savings Pank, Lakeport .National luank, 
T^akeport Building & Loan Association, and Winni- 
|3esaukee Gas Ov Electric ( 'ompany. He is a Past 
( )tPicer in Chocorua Lodge, Independent ( Irder of 
Odd Fellows, of Lakeport. and of the Laconia 
Encampment, and is a member of (', niton ( )sgood. 
He is a member of Mount Lebanon Lodge. No. 32, 
Ancient F'ree and .Accepted Masons, Union ( 'hap- 
ter No. 7, Ro\al .\rch .\Lisons, P\tliagorean Coun- 
cil No. 6. Roval and Select Masters. Pilgrim 
Connnander\' Knights Tempi, ir. Mount Washington 
Cha|)ter. ( )rder l\astern St.ir. and the Edwai'd 
,\. Ra\ niond ( 'ousistorw Thirty-second 1 )egree, 
Nashua. He is an .ittentlant of the I'nion ,\\enue 
Baptist church of Lake|)ort. hi politics he has 
always been a Rrpubhi an. He w.is .1 member of 



MEN OF 



ROC.KKSS. 



the Laconia City Council from organization May 3. 
1893, to March 9, uSy;, wlicn he was elected Mayor 
unanimously. lie was re-elected by a heavy ma- 
jority. Mr. I'ulsifer was married July 30, 1885, 
to Su.san K. Smilev. daughter of Dr. T- K. Smilev, 




c. I,. rUI.SII'KK. 

of Sutton, New Hampshire, who died .Vpril 2. 
1890. Mr. Fulsifer had two sisters, the elder 
.\rianna H. I'ulsifer, born June 3, 1844, and died 
January 27, 1S83. .She was a graduate of Colby 
Academy and drand I.igne. Canada, School, and 
a specialist in Latin and French. She was for 
several years a teacher in Colby Academy, and for 
eight years l.ady l'rinci|)al of Worcester, Massa- 
chusetts, Academy. 'I"he younger sister, Adela L., 
was born May 12, 1851, and died October 12, i860. 



QUINBY, Hknrv Brewer, Manufacturer, Lake- 
port, was born in Biddeford, Maine, June 10. 1846. 
son of Thomas and Jane E. (Brewer) Quinby. Mr. 
Quinby comes from good old New England stock, 
on both sides of his famih-. 'Lhrough his father. 
he is a direct descend.uit n[ Jnhn Rogers, hfth 
President of Fhirvard College, of Major-General 
Daniel Dennison. the famous colonial officer, of 
Governor 'riiomas Dudley nf the Massachusetts 
colony and of many other colonial celebrities. On 
his mother's side Mr. Quinby descended from 
Major Charles l-'rost. the famous Indian fighter, and 



numbers among his great-great-great-grandmothers 
two sisters of Sir William Pe]3perell, the colonial 
baronet who won renown at the siege of Louisburg, 
and is a direct descendant of the Reverend Jose 
(ilover, in the ninth generation, at whose charge 
the Hrst printing press was established in .\merica. 
lie attended the Biddeford .schools and Nichols 
Latin School of Lewiston. as well as Bowdoin Col- 
lege, Brunswick, Maine, being graduatetl from the 
latter in 1869. He received the degree of A. M., 
in 1 87 2, and in 1880 was graduated in medicine at 
the Nati(jn.il Medical College. Washingtim, District 
of Columbia. He is Manager and Assistant Treas- 
urer of the Cole Manufacturing Coni])any of l^ake- 




HENRY K. QUINBY. 

])orl, with which lie has been connected since 1869. 
Mr. (Juinli\ w.is a member of Governor .Straw's 
Staff in i872-'73, a member of the Legislature of 
i887-'88, State Senator in uS89-'90, member of the 
(jovernor's Council in i8gi-"92. being Chairman of 
the State Prison P.oard. Delegate-at-large to the 
National Republican Convention at Minneapolis in 
1893, and President of the State Republican Con- 
\ention in 1896. In politics he is a Republican. 
He was appointed a member of the Board of Trus- 
tees of the New Hampshire Asylum for Insane in 
1897. He was made a Mason in 187 i at Laconia, 
and is Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge 
of Free and Accepted Masons of New Hampshire, 



MEN OF I'ROGRKSS. 



Deputy Grnnil ("oniniandL-)- of tliu Ciiand ( 'oiii- 
mandery, KniylUs 'remplar of New llampshiie, ami 
an Active Member of the Supreme Council of the 
Scottish Rite of the Northern Masonic [urisdiction 
of the United States. He is \'ice-l'resident of tile 
Laconia National and ('it\' Saxings Ranks of l.aco- 
nia. Mr. (Juinl)\- niariied lune 22, 1870, ( )ctavia 
AT., dautjhtei' of lion. ]>. |. ( 'ole of Lakeport. lie 
has two chiklren : llenr\- Cole (Juinhv. a lawyer in 
New York citv in the office of I'.varts, Choate iv 
Reaman. and Candace Kllen, wife of Hugh N, 
('.imp, |r.. of New \'ork citv. 



RANLET, josKi'ii, Retired Manufacturer, 
Laconia. was liorn in Cilmanton, .New Hamiishire. 
November 27. uSii, son of No.ih and Rachel 
(Osgood) Ranlet. He attended the public schools 
of his native town, and beyaii his business career 
at the C;ilfoi'd Manufacturing Company of Meredith 
Bridge, New Hampshire. In 1829, he went to New- 
market, where he had charge of the machine slio|)s 
of the Newmarket .Manufacturing Company', a ]iost 
which he held until No\eniber, 1849, when he re- 




JdSKI'll K.^NI.K'r. 

mined to l.aicmia. In May, i8c;o, he jonnc-d the 
partnership with his lirolher, ( harles Kanlet, in the 
manufacture of railway cars, under tlu- name of 
Ranlet ('ar ('oni|3any, which continued until tlie 
ileath of (harU-s Kanlet in ( )ctol)er, 1 86 r . In 



December of the following \ear, |oseph Ranlet 
tormed a partneiship witli |ohn C. Moulton, 1 ontin- 
Liing the business under the name of Moulton Ov 
Ranlet Car Company. In |anuary, 1865, another 
company was formed mider the name of the Ranlet 
.Manufacturing Company, the members being John 
C. Moultf)!!, Joseph Ranlet, and Perley Putnam, 
which continued in Inisiness until April Jo, 1878, 
when Mr. Ranlet retiretl from the business. He 
was married Noxember 6, i8jf). to Elizabeth l''ra- 
zier Somerliy. They ha\e three children : Sarah 
l-'.lizabeth, Ella Virginia, and Mary Abbie Sonierby 
Ranlet. 



RICHARDSON, Cvrus, 1). D., I'astor of the 
I'iist Congiegational Church, Nashua, was born in 
Dracut, Massachusetts, March 30, 1840, son of 
Samuel and Hannah (\'arnum) Richardson. He is 
descended in the eighth generation from b'.zekiel 
Richardson, one of the founders of the town of 
W'oburn, Massachusetts, and of its church, a fact 
which led to the selection of Dr. Richardson to 
deliver an address at the celebration of the two 
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Woburn 
Church in i8()2. He recei\'etl his preparatory edu- 
cation at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary 
at Tilton and Phillips Academy. Andover, Massa- 
chusetts, and was graduated fidui Dartmouth Col- 
lege in the class of "64, being selected as one of the 
commencement speakers. I-'or two years he was 
an instructor in Latin and N.Uural Sciences in Cin- 
cinnati, ()lii(i. at the same lime pursuing special 
studies. L'lion his return to New England he 
entered Ando\er Theological .Seminarv in .Septem- 
ber, 1866, completing the full course and being 
graduated in July, 1S69. He was ordained and 
installed pastor of the Pl\inoutli (New Hampshire) 
Congregational Church September 30 of the same 
year. \\'hile here he interested himself in the 
welfare of the town as well as (}f the church. lie 
was among the prime movers for a state Norm.d 
School, and helped to secure its location in l'l\- 
niouth. In the spring of 1883 he received .lud 
accepted a flattering call to the |)astorate of the 
First Congregational church of Keene, New H.nnp- 
sliire, to wiiii h he ministered for ten years. Not 
only did he suctei-d in making his own church 
strong and active, but churches of the county 
looked to him as a leader and adxisor. In eduia- 
tional matters his inlluence was well known, liaving 
been elected as a member of the board of educa- 
lion and lor ,1 lime ret.dned as its chairman. In 



MEN OF PR(JGRESS. 



the summer of 1883, he received a unanimous call 
from the First Congregational church of Nashua. 
It was with great reluctance that the Kcene people 
allowed him to leave them. The other Pastors 
showed their friendship for him and his wife by 
tendering them a farewell hani|uet, with fraternal 
resolutions. His present pastorate has continued 
fifteen years, and though he has had invitations to 
other fields his purpose seems li.xed to remain in 
Nashua. He is well known throughout the 
churches of the state, having taken a leading part 
in denominational conferences and ecclesiastical 
councils. His frecpient calls to preach installation 
sermons attest the high esteem in which he is held 




CVRU.S U1C11.\U|1SI).\. 

by Congregationalists. In rS94, his Nashua 
church under his leadership dedicated one of the 
finest church buildings in New Kngland, and its 
growth has been so marked that it is regarded as 
one of the strongest churches of the state. Doctor 
Richardson has tra\elled extensively in our own 
country and also abroarl. and has given many 
sketches of his travels. In June. i8Sg, upon the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of his graduation, Dart- 
mouth conferreci upon him the degree of I). D., 
and in 1892 he was made one of the trustees of 
the college. For many years he has been a Trus- 
tee of the New Hampshire Home Missionary Soci- 
ety, and for several years a member of its execu- 



tive committee. He married January 18, 1871, 
Miss .\nnie Dearborn of Plymouth, a graduate 
from Mount Holyoke Seminary, and for several 
years one of its teachers. They have six children : 
Walter Dearborn, born July 10, 1872; Pearl, born 
.\pril 27. 1S74; Florence H., born June (>. 1875 : 
F.lizabeth G.. born April 26, 1877 ; Margaret P., 
born December 4. 1879; and Phillip Richardson, 
born February 25, 1884. A prominent parishioner 
of Dr. Richardson and one of the best known citi- 
zens of Nashua, the Hon. V. C. Oilman, says of 
him : " His pulpit manners are dignified and becom- 
ing. His voice is full, clear, and musical. His 
enunciation is distinct and entirely free from affec- 
tation, and fixes the attention of the young as well 
as the old. His discourses are marked with care 
in composition and research in preparation. His 
choice of subjects falls in the line of practical, 
every-day religious life, and the language employed 
is plain and concise. There is no painful attempt 
to make the drapery of words more important than 
the ideas they clothe. His type of pietv is genuine 
and true. His labors in Nashua have been emi- 
nently successful, not only among the people of 
his own parish, but in the broader sense of the 
entire community, where he is highly appreciated 
and honored. Among non-churchgoers no clergy- 
man in the city has so many calls to attend funeral 
services and other benevolent and gratuitous ser- 
vice, and no one responds more freely and gener- 
ously ; at the same time he maintains a clo.se and 
cordial relation to his own people, so that he per- 
forms most faithfully a vast amount of parish and 
l)ublic service. His warm paternal heart goes out in 
care and solicitude for the young bevond the large 
and interesting family beneath his own roof, and 
embraces all the children of the parish and public 
schools, our young men's associations, and all organi- 
zaticnis that look to the fitting for the higher and 
nobler duties of life. The value of such a minister 
and teacher so well equipped, cannot be weigiied or 
measured, and happy is the church and the com- 
munity where he has an abiding place." The Rev. 
F. 1). Aver, I). D.. of Concord, who is intimatcK- 
acquainted with Dr. Richardson, his character and 
work, gives his estimate in the following language : 
"The Reverend Dr. Richardson possesses and 
exhibits some of the best results of the New Kng- 
land home, school, church, a sound body, mind 
and heart, obedient to a controlled will. These 
have made his advance in his profession and his 
growth of influence in all directions, steady and 



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soiiitw hat rapid. As a pieai lu-r hv is dcxntecl to 
his profession. His keen rehsli inr his worl^, his 
loyalty to its highest obligations. Iiis e\ ident run- 
\i( ticin that a man owes the best he has to his voca- 
tion and that in it God is to aid him, combine to 
render his service faithful, untiring, and helpful. 
He is a strong preacher. His sermons are thought- 
ful, clear, definite in aim. He has clear cunxic- 
tions upon religious and moral sulijects which he 
states decidedly, but \ields to all others the rights 
which he claims for himself. He has ( (ininKin sense, 
and uses it in his relation to men. lie enters into 
the feelings and necessities of each in(li\ idiial. and 
is helpful to all classes. As a citizen he identilies 
himself with all the interests of his [leciple and of 
the community in which he li\es, and easily takes 
a controlling part in all ciuestinns and nu-thnds of 
reform as a staunch friend of mankintl. His good 
judgment, readv mind, and \'aried experience fit 
him for usefulness beyond the limits of his own 
city. He is a member of the different state organ- 
izations of the Congregational denoniinatinn, arid 
deeply interested in e\ery gooil work that ma\' 
elevate and Christianize the whole pe()])le. It will 
be inferred that he wins a high place in the con- 
fidence and esteem of the peo|3le fni" whimi he 
labors, and in all his pastorates has carrietl ilaily 
the affection of his people and ]3rii\eil himself "a 
workman that needeth not to lie ashamed." 



.SA\\'\'KR, Ch.\ri.es Henry, Manufacturer, 
Hover, was born in W'atertown, New \drk, March 
30. 1840, eldest son of [onathan and Martha (Per- 
kins) Sawyer. His ancestry un both the ]3aternal 
and maternal sides were among the early settlers of 
Massachusetts. He attended the sclif>ols of W'ater- 
town until he was ten years of age, when the fam- 
ily removed to Dover, and he completed his educa- 
tion in that city. He entered the .Sa\\'\er Woolen 
Mills at the age of seventeen, the plant then being 
engaged in the manufacture of flannels. lie had 
become thoroughly proficient in the business at the 
age of twenty-six, and was tlien appointed Superin- 
tendent of the mills. In i.S,Si he became President 
of the company, and since then the general manage- 
ment of the mills has been in his hands. Through- 
out his business career Mr. .Sawyer has been mark- 
edly successful. I-fe has held many public offices. 
He served in Ixith branches of the City (.'ouncil of 
Dover, was Re|)resentative to the Legislature in 
i86o-'7o-'76-'77, a member of the staff of (lovernor 
Charles H. IJell in iSSi, and in i.S.St he was dele- 



gate to the Natinn.il l\e|}iibli( an ( "onx cntion in Clii- 
cag<i. In iS.SO he w.is rlci led Coxernor of New 
Hampshire, and thiring his term of office, he rep- 
resented the state in in.in\ ( enlennial celebrations 
that were held during th.it |>criod, particularh' at 
Philadelphia on the oci .ision of the celebration of 
the one hundredth anni\ersary of the promulgation 
of the Constitution of ilu' 1 nited States. Another 
centennial was that in Nrw \ dik of the inaugura- 
tion of President W.isliington. Mr. Sawyer is a 
Director in the Stiaffonl National Rank, a Trustee 
and Vice-President of the Strafford Savings Rank, 
and a Director of the Dover das Light Conipau)-. 
He has held the ]iositions of President of the Do\er 




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CHARI.KS H. SAWVKI.:. 

Horse Railroad Company, Director and Kxecutive 
Member of the Granite State 1 nsni an< c- ( 'omisany. 
President of the I'^lliott ISridge Comii.iny, a Direc- 
tor in the Dover & J^oitsinonth. in tlie f^jrtsmouth. 
Great Falls & Conway, and in the Wolfboro Branch 
Railroads. He is a member of the Congregational 
Society of Dover. He is a .Mason, and has been 
twice chosen Master of the lodge, and for man\- 
years the Kminent Commander of the St. Paul 
Commandery, Knights Tem])lar. Mi-. Saw\er was 
married February ,S. iSdc;, to Susan PJlen, tl.iugh- 
ter of Dr. |ames \\". and I'.li/.ilieth (dwan of Do\x-r. 
'Pheir children an-: William Da\is, who mairied 
Susan Gerlrude, d.uighter of lion. |oslui.i(l. llall 



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of Dover ; Charles I-'rancis. wlio married ("Tcrtrude 
Child, daujrhter of Hon. Henry W. Severance of 
San Francisco ; James Cowan, who married Mary 
Pepperell, daughter of Judge George Seward Frost 
of Dover, and Fdward and Klizabetli Coffin .Sawyer. 

SHl^TK, Hknrv Aucustl's. Lawyer, Exeter, 
was horn in that town, November 17, 1856, son of 
George S. and Joanna (Simpkins) Shute. His fam- 
ily has been prominent in the development of Rock- 
ingham county. He was educated in the common 
schools of his native town, at Phillips Academy and 
later at Harvard College, where he was graduated 
in 1879. He studied law with \\". \\'. Stickney of 




HENRV A. SHUIE. 

E.xeter. and was admitted to the ]!ar in August. 
1882. Since that time he has been engaged in 
the practice of his profession, being Judge of the 
Police Court since .April. 1883. He has been 
Treasurer of the Farmers' Insurance Company since 
1884. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Shute 
was married October 18. 1885, to Amelia ¥. Weeks, 
who died January 26, 1895, leaving two children: 
Richard E. and Nathalie. He was a .second time 
married August 12, 1897, to Ella Kent. 



SMITH, Is.\AC WiLLi.\M, Lawyer, Manchester, 
the second child of Isaac and Mary (Clarke) Smith, 



was born in Hain])stead, New Hampshire, May 18, 
1825. His early years were passed in the quiet 
atmosphere of his native village, and in attendance 
at brief periods at the academies in Salisbury, 
Atkinson, Derry, and Sanbornton. At the age of 
fifteen years, he was sent to pursue his studies pre- 
paratory for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Massachusetts, then under the care of Samuel H. 
Taylor. LL. I)., one of the most distinguished edu- 
cators that this country has as yet produced. After 
completing his preparatory .studies he entered Dart- 
mouth College in 1842. The President of the col- 
lege, Rev. Nathan Lord. D. D.. was then in the 
full meridian of that remarkable career which se- 
cured for him a place among the foremost college 
jsresidents of the country. Mr. Smith graduated 
in 1846, and in the spring of 1847 commenced his 
legal studies in the office of William Smith, at 
Lowell, Massachusetts. After spending nearly a 
year in this office he removed to Manchester, New 
Hampshire, and completed his studies in the office 
of Hon. Daniel Clark. He was admitted to the 
liar July g. 1850. and at once commenced the prac- 
tice of his profession in Manchester, which he has 
continued to the present time (189S), except while 
holding a position as judge. He was for five years 
the law partner of Hem. Daniel Clark. Mr. Smith 
was early recognized bv his fellow-citizens as tak- 
ing a lively interest in the welfare of his adopted 
city. He was President of its Common Council in 
i85i-'52. City Solicitor in i854-"55, and Mayor in 
1869. He also served two years upon the Hoard 
of School Committee. In 1855 he was appointed 
ludge of the Police Court of Manchester, but re- 
signed the office in 1857 to engage more fully in 
the practice of his profession. He was elected in 
1S59 '° represent his ward in the Legislature of 
the state, and re-elected in the following year, and 
in the latter year was Chairman of the Judiciary 
Committee of the House of Representatives. In 
i862-"63 he was a member of the State Senate and 
Chairman of its Judiciary Committee. In 1863 
he was appointed by President Lincoln Assessor 
for the second internal revenue district of New- 
Hampshire, and held the office until 1870. He 
was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Judicial Court of New Hampshire, February 10, 
1S74, by Governor Straw. In August of that year 
the court was re-organized, and he was appointed 
by Go\-ernor \\'eston, Associate Justice of the new- 
court, and held the office until the court was again 
re-organized in August. 1876. In July, 1877, a 



MEN ()!•■ I'R(»(;RESS. 



vucancy occeirriny in the Supruine Court, lie was 
appointed by (iovernor I'lescott to till the position, 
which he occupied until he retired in May, 1895, 
ha\ini; reached the age liinitaticm prescribed by 
the constitution of the state. As a lawyer, Judge 
Smith in his practice has been clinracterized by a 
clear judgment, unsparing industry, ,ind uubending 
integrity. Upon the bench, his ability as a law- 
yer, his conscientious and thorough examination of 
every case upon wliich he was called to express an 
opinif.u. and the judicial poise and impartiality 
which he always maintained, secured for his decis- 
ions the highest degree of confidence and respect. 
Judge Smith's personal interest in the affairs of his 
alma mater has suffeied no abatement as other 
cares and interests have multiplied. He was Presi- 
dent of the Dartmouth Alunmi Association in 1881- 
'83. and of the Phi lieta Kappa Society in 1S82- 
'84. In college he was one of the charter mem- 
bers of the Dartmouth Chapter of the Alpha 
Delta Phi Society. In 1880 he delivered before 
the Alun.ni Association an eul(ig\- on the lile and 
character of Hon. William H. IJartlett, late Asso- 
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hamp- 
shire. In March, 1885, he was elected one of the 
Trustees of the College, and has held that position 
to the present time. He received the degree of 
LL. D. from the college in iSSg. He has found 
time in the press of professional duties to indulge 
his taste for historical investigation, contributing 
his share to the researches of the New Hampshire 
Historical Society, of which he lias been a meniber 
since 1861. As early as 1849 he delixered an 
addiess, which was subsecpiently published, at 
the centennial celebration of the incorporation of 
his native town. His tastes in this direction 
gave a special zest and value to a visit which 
he made in the summer of 1878 to several scenes 
of historical interest in the old world. In 1889 
he was a delegate frf)m Manchester to the New 
Hampshiie ('(institutional ( '(in\ cntion. lie has 
been a Trustee of the Af ,ini hester Public Li- 
lirary since 1872. and 'I'rustee of the Manchester 
Savings Bank since 1S91. He is also a member 
of the Masonic fraternity, having received all 
the degrees to and including that of Knights 
Templar. Politically the sympathies of Judge 
Smith have been with the Republican party since 
its organization. lie was an earnest ach'ocale 
of the great |M"inciples which that party bore in- 
scribed u|3on its barniers in our tt'rrihle ci\il wai'. 
and in the pi-riod of reconstruction which followed. 



and which are deslinrd lo go down to the future 
as an inspiring .ind pl.istir IHire iu one of the 
great epochs in historw lie was in i,S::;() a dele- 
gate to the national conxcntion which nominatetl 
Fremont and Dayton as candidates for President 
and Vice-President. Religiously, b}- education and 
conviction, his sympathies are with the ( )rthodo.\ 
Congregationalists. He early identified himself 
with the Franklin-Street ( 'ongregational Society in 
Manchester, and assumed his full share of its 
burdens and responsibilities, being called at differ- 
ent times to fill the offices of President. Treasurer, 
and Director in it. In 1S70 he became a member 
in full connnunion of the clunch with which that 




ISAAC w. sMrrii. 

societ\' is connected, and has alwavs taken a warm 
and li\el\- interest in its ])r(ispcrlt_\ . and in the 
advancement of the c.uise which it repiesents. 
[udge Smith was united in marriage August 16, 
1854, with Amanda \\'., daughtei' of Hon. Hiram 
lirown, the first Mayor of Manchester. Fight chil- 
dren were born to them: .Mary .\.. wife of \'. C. 
l<'erguson. Port .\rthur. Texas ; Willi, ini I., P.ustle- 
ton, Pennsylvania ; .\ithur W'hilney. deceased 
March 5. 1866; Julia P.. wile of W. 1). Cowan, 
Saratoga, Wyoming; I'',dward C., .\l.ini hester. New 
Hampshire; Daniel ( '.. l.awrencit, Massachusetts; 
[ennie P., wife of Dr. J. 1. llothh'ld, Newton, Mas- 
sachusetts: (Irace 1.., .\lau( ln-ster. New llampshire. 



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SHANNON, F.DwiN Howk, Lawyer. Laconia, 
was born in (lilmaiilon. New Hampshire, March >S, 
1858, son of James C. and Judith \\'. (Batchelder) 
Shannon. He traces his descent in the paternal 
Hne from an early settler of Portsmouth, his grand- 
father, Ceorge Shannon, having been born in that 
place. In the maternal line he comes of the family 
which was related to that of the famous statesman, 
Daniel Webster, his great-grandmother having been 
a cousin of the statesman, Mr. Shannon received 
his education in the common schools of his native 
town, and at Oilmanton .\cadeniy. He studied law 
with Hon. Thomas Cogswell of Gilmanton. lately 
the United States Pension .'Kgent at Concord, and 




was admitted to the JJar in 1S81. He then became 
a partner of Mr. Cogswell, remaining such for 
about a year, when the partnership was dissolved 
by mutual consent, .Mr. Shannon seeking a wider 
tield for practice than was afforded him in Gilman- 
ton. He thereafter practiced his profession alone, 
until 1893, having offices in Farniington and Pitts- 
tield, where he soon acquired more than a local 
reputation for his ability in llu- trial of cau,ses, and 
gained for himself a considerable clientage. In 1893 
he went to Laconia and entered into partnership 
with W. S. I'easlee, the linn subsequently becoming 
,Shannon, Peaslee and Hlackstone. In 1894 he with- 
drew from that lirm, since which time he has been 



in business alone. He is counsel for several large 
and prosperous corporations, and for a number of 
years has devoted considerable time to the special 
study of that important branch of the law. He is 
also considered an authority upon the Law of Per- 
sonal Injuries, and has a large practice in lliat 
branch of his profession. Mr. Shannon is a man 
of strong personalitv. is cpiick to determine and 
prom))t to execute. Fearless in thought and action, 
with strong common sense as a guide, he does not 
hesitate to carve a way where none appears. Prece- 
dents ha\e no terrors for him. If they appear to 
be right, he follows them, but if wrong, he fearles.sly 
attacks them and some, at least, have gone down 
before the logic of his reasoning. As a counsellor, 
wise and jjrudent, in the trial of causes, strong and 
tactful, and as an advocate, earnest and eloquent, 
he has accjuired a large and lucrative practice. In 
politics he is a Republican, He was married Octo- 
ber 18, 1882, to Myra E., daughter of Ira L. and 
Lavina E. (Drew) Berry, of Barnstead. 'I'he\' have 
three children: Ella (_"., Mildred and Fdwin H. 
.Shannon. Jr. 



SPK.\(U'E, Ob.\di.\h, Retired Manufacturer, 
W'est .Swanzey, was born in Richmond, New Hamp- 
shire, May 21, 1S26, son of Samuel and Melinda 
(Kingman) Sprague, In the paternal line he is of 
Scotch descent, his great-grandfather having emi- 
grated from Scotland to Providence, Rhode Island, 
about 1760, His grandfather, Obadiah Sprague, 
born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1770, re- 
nun ed t" Richmond, New Hampshire, in 1792, and 
resided there until his death in 1838. His father, 
Samuel Sprague, who was born in Richmond in 
1797, died in Winchester in 1881, On the mater- 
nal side, Mr, Sprague is of good old New England 
stock, the Kingman family having long resided in 
Bridgewater, Massachusetts, before their removal 
to Winchester, New Hampshire. Mr. Sprague 
attended the district schools of Richmond until he 
was fifteen years old. and was a pupil for two years 
at the Winchester High School, At seventeen he 
was employed as a merchant's clerk, being thus 
occupied in Winchester and Keene for si.x years. 
Then for eight years he was a clerk in a wholesale 
and retail grocery house in Keene, for si.x years 
acting as bookkeeper. He opened a crockery and 
carpet store in Keene in 1837, but in 1839 sold out 
his interest to ac(-ept the Cashiership of the Win- 
chester Bank, where he remained five years, resign- 
ing to purchase, with others, the woolen and wood- 



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w.UL' mills at West Swaiizc)-. I''iir twelve \'ears he 
was Treasurer and Manager of the Strattoii Mills 
('ciin|:)an\'. ami then letiretl Irniu the management, 
retaining;. Imwever. his interest in the pniperty. 
He hnilt and htted up a fom-sett wixilen mill on 
a w.tter puwer near Keene. now (.died Spragiie- 
ville, and another mill for the mamifaiture of 
tables and lock-corner boxes, employing about one 
hundred hands. The mills were destro3-ed by tire 
in uSSi.bul he immediatelv rebuilt the t.tble and 
box mill, and in iSS:; formed the ('heshiie llox 
Compan)'. Ch.irles L. Howe being the ^Tallager. 
Mr. Sprague then returned to West Swanzey, and 
took the management of the mills there, the name 
of the company being ch.inged [n West .Swan/ey 
^[anufacturing Company. He was Treasurer and 
Manager imtil 189:^, when he sold out his stock in 
the concern and retired from active Inisiness. He 
is still a resident of West Swanzev. He was a 
Representati\e in the State Legislature in 1.S70 
anci 1S71. and held the <iflice of Town Treasurer 
and Nbjclerator for several )ears. He is a mem- 
ber of the Lodge of the Temple, l'"ree and Ac- 
ce]3ted Masons, Keene. fn politics he has always 



S'f'.VHL, Ar.RAir\M AL, Ranker, anil f)r\-C;oods 
Dealer. Rerlin. was born near C'assel, (Germany, 
ISfarch 24, 1S53. son of Nehm and Sara (Metzyer) 
Stahl. He recei\ed a common school education, 
and from an early age depended ujion his own re- 






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nl;.\|il\ll si'KAC.t'K. 

been a hemocrat. and at the last I'lesidential 
election \dted tin- I'.dmer and lliukner ticket. 
\\r. Sprague ntarried. January 3, 1.S77. .\l.irtha I'',. 
Mason. 'I'hev have two children : liertha E., Ijorii 
in 1880. and .\laiv NL Sprague. born in 1885. 



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sources. In his business career he has been very 
successful. He has been engaged in the dr\-goods 
business since 187:;. and in I'.erlin he has been 
identified with man\- of the other leading interests 
of the town. l''or seven \-ears he has been Presi- 
dent of the lierlin Savings Hank and Trust Com- 
pany, and for h\e vears President of the (been 
Acpieduct and Land ('ompan\of the same place. 
He has also been a Director in the Daniel Cireen 
Land Company. He ser\ed as Representative of 
the (General Court of the State of New ILimpshire 
at the session of 1891. He is a member of the 
Sabatis Lodge, No. 95. Ancient bicc and .\ccepted 
Masons; of Coos Lodge, No. 25. Knights of P\thias, 
and he is also an Odd Eellow. In politics he is a 
Gold Democrat. Mr. Stahl w.is m.irried August, 
1887, to Flora Guttman of .Soinersworlh, New I lamp- 
shire. He has two c hildreii : .^clma Louise and 
lerome (iuttman Stahl. 



TENNE\', CH.\Ki.r:s FIi'NRV, Merchant and 
Manufacturer, New \oik, was born in S.dem, 
New Hain])sliirc. lul\- 9. i.S4_'. son of bihn f . and 



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MEN OF PROGRKSS. 



Hannali (Woodbury) Tcnney. He attended the 
town schools of Salem, and had a course at Tilton 
Academy. Al the age of sixteen he began his 
business career in a grocery .store at Methuen, 
.Massachusetts. He embarked in a shoe store at 
the age of twenty-one and was quite successful for 
two years, and then started in the manufacture of 
hats, a business he has since continued in addition 
to the commission business in the same articles. 
He has been highly successful in business, and is 
one of the New Hampshire men who has made for 
himself a mark in the big city of New York. He 
is a member of the Metropolitan Club; of the New^ 
England Society ; I'nion League Club ; New York 




1 1IA>. II. I I \ \ I \ . 

Athletic C'lub ; the Reform Club: the Manhattan 
Club; the Lotus Club and the Chamber of Com- 
merce, all of New N'ork. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. Mr. Tenney was married November 23, 
1865, to Fanny (;. Cleason. They have one son, 
Daniel C. 'I'ennev. 



S'l'UR'l'ENA.N'l", I'.DWAkii Hiu.vM. .Manufacturer 
and E.x-Mayor of Franklin, was Ijorii in Craftsbury, 
Vermont. April 27. 1S45. son of Hiram and Eliza 
S. (Corey) Sturtevant. His father, the only son of 
Ezra and Lucy Sturtevant. was a farmer early in 
life, but in 1X53 sold his place in Craftsbury and 
removed to liarton, \ermont, later moving to Leb- 



anon, and buying an interest in a manufactory 
of sash, doors, blinds, and furniture carried on by 
]. C. Sturtevant, and continued in this business for 
four years. Then selling his interest to his part- 
ner, he started a shoe store, continuing in this bus- 
iness until he retired. He died December S, 1895. 
He had four children : Edward H., Mary F.. now 
the wife of David G. Thomson. Superintendent of 
the Montreal Transportation Company at Montreal; 
Ezra L., a lumber dealer in C'hicago, and Henry 
H.. proprietor of a department store in Zanesville, 
Ohio. The subject of this sketch attended the 
connnon schools until he was twelve years of age, 
and then spent four years in Barton Academy, 
completing the course at sixteen. He taught in the 
district school during the winter, and the next 
spring entered the employ of William Joslyn iV 
Sons, druggists, with a view of learning the busi- 
ness. Two years later he obtained a position in 
Wellington. Ohio, as head clerk in a drug store, 
and there remained about two years, the last year 
making all the purchases of goods and having gen- 
eral management of the business. Poor health, 
largelv due to the climate, compelled him to leave 
Ohio, and he returned to Lebanon, where he 
started a drugstore in .'Vpril. 1866. This business 
proved a success, and in a few months Mr. Sturte- 
vant sold the business at a handsome figure to 
Doctor L N. Perley. Joslyn ^: Sons, his former 
employers, offered to join him in establishing a 
drug-store in Colebrook. and he accepted the propo- 
sition. The store was built and stocked with drugs, 
medicines, paints, oils, books, and stationery. .Mr. 
Sturtevant having the management for the first two 
years. Then Mr. G. S. Joslyn. one of the sons, 
bought out his interest in the establishment. Mr. 
Sturtevant went on a trip through the states of 
Iowa and Michigan, looking for a favorable busi- 
ness opening, but here again the climate failed to 
agree with him. and he decided to return to New 
England. In J.muary. 1S69. he opened a drug 
store in Woodstock. N'ermont. taking his brother 
Ezra as a partner, and added boots and shoes as a 
part of the business. In .\pril. 1S74, the brothers 
sold out the business. Ezra Sturtevant going West 
and Edward H. Sturtevant removing to Franklin, 
where he bought two drug stores, one at Franklin, 
and the other at Franklin Falls. Eventually he 
sold the latter store to I'rank H. Chapman. In 
1883 he bought a half interest in the Franklin 
Needle Companv. taking the management and hold- 
ing the office of Treasurer of the concern from that 



MEN OF I'ROGRESS. 



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time. P.eginning with almut t\vcnty-ti\e employees, 
the business has been developed until one hundred 
and seventy-five are now employed, and the eoni- 
pany has a trade e.xtendinj; throughout the IMiited 
States, Canada, several South American countries 
and England. In 18S7 Mr. Sturtevant sold his 
Franklin drug-store to W. M. Woodward, his duties 
with the manufacturing company requiring all his 
time and attention. He is a Director in the l-"rank- 
lin National Bank, Trustee of the I-'ranklin Savings 
Bank, Director and Vice-President of the Franklin 
Power and Light Company, l-'resident and Director 
of the Franklin Falls Companw and Director in 
the Sulloway Mills Company. In iS()3 he repre- 




E. H. STURl'KVANT. 

sented the town in the Legislature, and in 1S96 
was Mayor of Franklin. He is a member of the 
Meridian Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- 
sons of Franklin, St. Onier Chapter, Royal Arch 
Masons of (''ranklin. and Mt. Horeh Commandery 
of Concord. He is an Odd Fellow and a mem- 
ber of the l'',ncampment and Canton. In politics 
he is a Kepuljlican. He is a ineniber of the 
Unitarian Church Societ)'. He married in .M.iw 
1869, Ada I'). Martin, daughter of Iose])h A. and 
Elvira L. .M.ulin of .Stratford, New llampshire. He 
has two children: Eva Iv. horn in October, 1875. 
and Ruth B. Sturtevant, born in ( )ctober, iSSi. 



TF^TLEV, EnMl'Nli. Lieulen,nU-( 'olonel First New 
Hampshire \'olunteers, and Manufacturer, Laconia, 
was born in Bradford, \'orkshire comity, England, 
October 26, 1842, son of William and Mary Ann 
(lirayshaw) 'Fetley. He attended the schools in 
England until he was tweKe years of age, when 
with his family he came to America. At the age 
of nineteen he enlisted in the ITnited States Marine 
Corps at Portsmouth and saw some acti\-e sei-\ice. 
I-fe was at the attack on Forts Jackson and Philip, 
and at the captine of New Orleans by Admiral 
Farragut, being on lioard the United States sloo]3 
of war Portsmouth, which was subsequently sta- 
tioned at New ( )rleans for nearly four years. At 
the close of the war. he returned to Amesbtny, 
Massachusetts, sulisecpiently going to Appleton, 
Wisconsin, and then to Utica. New \'ork. From 
Lltica he went to ( )lne\\ ille, Rh<ide Island, and 
thence to Lowell, where he obtained emplovment in 
a paper-bo.K factory. Somewhat later he obtained 
a position in a paper-bo.x factory in Methuen, 
from which he in turn went to Ha\erhill, I\Fiss,i- 
chusetts. Li 1873, he went to Laconia, where he 
entered the employ of V. I', llolt, manufacturer 
of paper bo.xes. Fi\'e years later Mr. 'Petley suc- 
ceeded Mr. Holt, and has sime carried on a 
large and successful business on his own accomit. 
He has two factories, one at No. 10 .\rch street. 
Laconia, and the other at 1 5^1 Cold street. Lake- 
port. His business is selling to the local trade. 
Mr. 'Petley's interest in military affairs did not 
cease with the war serxite. Soon after coming 
to New Hampshire he joinetl ( 'ompaiu' K of the 
Third Regiment of the State Natiomd (niard. He 
was made Lieutenant in 1873. and a fear later 
promoted Captain, ser\ing in this rank until his 
resignation in 1883. .Some years later the old 
Company K was disbanded, whereupon Mr. Tetley 
organized another company which took the place 
in the same regiment, of which he was chosen Cap- 
tain. He was promoted to the rank of Major, Ma\- 
8, 1S94. He held this position at the time of 
President .McKinley's fust call for vohnUeers, when 
the Third New Hampshiie Regiment was selected 
for duty at the front. Major Tetley being in com- 
ni.uul when it left the state on its wa\- to ('halta- 
nooga. He has held a number of ])olitical jiosi- 
tions, among them, .Selectman of Laconia; High 
Sheriff of Belknap count)-, i888-'9o: a member ol 
the first Laconia Cit\' Council, representing Ward 
4. an office he held for two v'ears; member ol tin- 



MEN OV rRDGRF.SS. 



Stale I.c^islatiiri: in 1S94. where he served as 
C'liairman of the (.'omniittee on Military Affairs, 
and also on tiie Committee of the Soldiers' Home. 
He is very popular in fraternal circles, and is a 
member of a dozen or more organizations. In poli- 




EDMIINO TETl.KV. 

tics he is a Repiil)li< an. Colonel Tetley was married 
December g. 186S, to KUa K. Merrill of Lowell. 
Of their seven children, live are living; Pxlniund 
II. now a student in theology; (ui)- M., Superin- 
tendent of his father's factory at Laconia ; Ger- 
trude, a resident of Lowell ; Blanche and Charles 
Tetlev, now at school in Laconia. 



THOMPSON, .Xk-rniiR, Merchant and Manu- 
facturer, Warner, was born in that town, June 24. 
1844, son of Robert and Susan (Bartlett) Thomp- 
son. His great-grandfather, Benjamin Thompson, 
a soldier in the Revolution, was womided in the 
war, and died on the way home, after a long ser- 
vice. On the maternal side Mr. Thompson traces 
his ancestrv to ,\dain 15arttelot, an Esquire who 
came over with \\'illi;im the Conqueror, settled in 
Esse,\, England, and was buried at Stopham in 
I ICO. Mr. 'I'hompson's maternal great-grandfather 
was Simeon I5arllett. of .Amesbury, Massachusetts, 
a prominent business man, and like his brother. 
Governor Josiah Bartlett, tirst Governor of New 



Hanqjshire, was an ardent patriot in the Revolu- 
tion, and Chairman of the New Hampshire Com- 
mittee of Safety during the long struggle for i]ule- 
pendence. He was one of the origin;d proprietors 
of the township of Warner, .\rthur Thompson 
attended the schools of his native town and Bern- 
broke and Henniker Academies, being graduated 
from the latter in 1S62. He at once began the 
study of medicine with Doctors Gage and Hildreth 
at Concord, but after four months he joined the 
Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment and served 
tmtil the close of the war. .\fter being in the army 
for three months, he w-as detached from his regi- 
ment and served at different times at the head- 
(piarters of the Second, 'I'hird. and I'Ourth Divi- 
sions of the Ninth Army Corps; and also, at the 
Ninth Army Corps headquarters, and at the de- 
fenses of Bermuda Hundred under Major-(;eneral 
Hartsuft'. For the last eight months of the war he 
was on detached service b)' special order of (icneral 
Grant. He was at the siege of Knoxville and at 
\'icksbin'g and also at all the battles engaged in by 
the Ninth Corps from Fredericksburg in 1S62 to 
the fall of Betersbiu'g in 1S65. He was still under 
twenty-one years of age at the close of the war, but 
upon attaining his majority entered business at 
Warner. L:iter he spent several years in Illinois, 
Iowa, and New \'ork city. Since 1875 he has 
resided at Warner, passing several winters in the 
Southern states and two seasons in California and 
Arizona. He was a merchant in Warner in 1875- 
'89. and in i88i-'94 was largely engaged in the 
manufacture of fruit evaporators and of evaporated 
goods. He sold evaporators from Maine to Arkan- 
sas, the general price of the factory machines being 
from four hundred to eight hundred dollars each. 
He also put in and operated evaporating plants in 
Virginia and North Carolina. Li Warner he 
operated the largest evaporating plant in New Eng- 
land, and with one or two exceptions the largest 
one in the Cnilt'd States. He employed more 
men and women in W arner than any other person 
in town, lie built a number of houses and in 1883 
erected for the l\Urons of Husbandry, Grange 
FLill which was occupied by them for nine years. 
He started a broom factory in 1887, but after doing 
some ten thous;ind dollars worth of business he 
was compelled to give it u]5. for the reason that 
help could not be hired in \\'arner at prices paid 
bv similar concerns in New York and elsewhere. 
He moved the machinery of the plant to North 
Carolina and there did a fairly successful business, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



luUil he sokl nut t" persons li\inL; in th.it state. 
From 1SS7 to 1S93 he was in the real estate Inisi- 
ness in North Carolina antl handled a larye amount 
of village and niininy property. His endeavors 
have been devoted almost wholh' to business and 
not much to politics. He has heUI si_iiool offices, 
and has been Super\isor, Chairman of the ISoard 
of Selectmen, and justice of the Peace for several 
years. He is a member of H.nris I,odge, Ancient 
Free and Accepted ]\fasons ; of Robert Campbell 
Post, (band Army of the Republic, and W.irner 
Orange. He is an occasional writer foi' ,1 number 
of publications. He married ( )ctober 14, 18G7, 
Caroline Heckler of Syracuse, New \drk. He has 
two children : Caroline Iv and Robert 'I'hompson, 
who studied medicine for four years, taking two 
courses of lectures at Hartiunuth College and one 
at Baltimore where he was grailuated and received 
the degree of !\r. I), at the age of twent\-one. He 
is now practicing successfulh' at Sutton, New 
Hampshne. < )n Mav 12. iSi^S, President McKin- 
ley appointed Arthur Thompson Captain and Assis- 
tant ( hiartermaster L'nited States \'olunteers. He 



Army, as Chief (Juai teniiaster of the .Second Divi- 
sion. First Army Corps, and ,it this writing is in 
that position. 




ARIitUR rllOMI'SON. 

was confirmed b\- the Senate on iMa\- 19 and joim-d 
the army at Chickaniauga I'ark. Cieorgia, and owing 
to his e.xperience in the (,)nartermaster's depaitment 
during the Ci\il War, was at once assigned by 
the .Assistant (,)uartermaster (Icneral Cniled States 



UPT<»N, Jaioi: Kk.nhkick, .\ssistant General 
Superintendent of the Cnited States Life Sa\ing 
Service, was born in Wihnot, New Hampshire, 
October 9, 1837, son of Daniel and Asenath (Teel) 
Upton. ( )n the ]iatcinal side the famil_\' is of 
English descent, tlie line tracing back to the Con- 
quest. 'I'hough originally settled in Cornwall, the 
Uptons have for many generations maintained their 
seat in Westniorekuul. b'bn Upton, from whom 
the subject of this sketch is descended (eighth 
generation) was an ardent supporter of King 
Charles 1, and was captured \yith man\' others in 
a battle near the town of I'pton in Worcester 
county, and lianished b\ Ciomwell to America in 
1652. He settled in that part of Salem now known 
as Dan\ers. where he secured large holdings of 
land, as became an exiled Tory. His tlescendants 
are numerous in that vicinity, and are also found 
scattered through the whole country. |acob Ken- 
drick, after passing through the |niblic schools of 
his nati\e town, attended the New London Literary 
and Scientific lnstituti<in, and was giadiiated there- 
from in Jul)-, i,S(io. Took a course in the Law 
School in the District of Columbia, graduating in 
1866, and in the same year was .idmitted to the 
Par. hi 18O3 he w.is .ippointed to a jiosition in 
the laiited States Treasury Dep.irtment. and was 
made Chief Clerk by promotion in iMarch, 1877, 
his appointment bearing the first official signature 
of the Hon. John Sherman, as Secretary of the 
Treasury. Two )ears later he was appointed 
Assistant Secretary b)- Mr. Sherman, and con- 
tinued to serve in that ca]xicity under Secretaries 
Windom and Folger. He was appointed Financial 
Statistician of the eleventh census, and published 
two folio volumes on the " Wc.illh. Debt, and Taxa- 
tion of the Countr\'," this being prolxibl)- the most 
exhaustive presentation of the resources and obli- 
gations, nati<inal, state, and local, ever made of this 
or any other country. Cijon the completion of 
this work, he was transferred to the United States 
Treasury as Assistant (leneral Sn|)erintendent of 
the Life Saving Service, a post he still retains. In 
1884 he imblished through Lothrop >S: Conipan}-, 
]5oston. a volume entitled •■ .Money in I'olitics," 
which is now passing through its se((ind edition. 
In 1S9; he published --.V Coin Calec hism." ot 
which a large number were in use as ,i Republi- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



can campaiijn document in 1896. He has been a Kdniund Truesdell was educated in the common 
frec|ueiit contiil)utor to Harper's publications and schools at Newton I'^pper Falls. Massachusetts. 

While attending school there he worked in the cot- 
ton mills during \acations and at other limes, and 
also delivered papers. He afterward took a regu- 



to the magazines of tlie country on linancial and 
economic topics, and was one of the founders of 
the Cosmos Club of Washington, District of ('olum- 




|. K. Ul'TON. 

bia. In politics he has always been a Republican, 
and especially a lirm believer in the establishment 
and maintenance of the gold standard. He was 
married October 29, 1S84, to Mrs. Mary de Hass 
Hoblibzell, second daughter of Doctor Wills de 
Hass, well known in the literary and scientific cir- 
cles of the capital. They have one child: Jacob 
Kendrick L'pton, Jr., born January 17, 1886. 



TRrisSDFT.I,, lOiiMUND Erskink, Superinten- 
dent and Paymaster of the China, Webster, and 
Pembroke Mills, Suncook, was born at Jewett City, 
Connecticut, March 3, 1845, s"" ^^ 'I'homas and 
Mary (Hoyden) Truesdell. On the paternal side 
he is of Scotch descent, his great-great-grandfather, 
Ichabod Truesdell, having come from Scotland 
about 1700, and settled in South Woodstock, Con- 
necticut. His great-grandfather, Darius Truesdell, 
was a soldier in the \\'ar of the Revolution and was 
at \'alley Forge during the winter of 1777. He 
was woundeil in the side, narrowly escaping death 
by a ball providentially striking a large old- 
fashioned pocket book in his waistcoat pocket. 



lar commercial course at Comer's Commercial Col- 
lege in Boston. ITpon leaving school he went into 
the Newton Cotton Mills and was soon promoted 
to the office of ( )\ersecr in the Cloth Room, Ship- 
ping Clerk and Assistant Superintendent. The 
'i'reasurer of the Newton Mills was also Treasurer 
of the mills in Suncook, whither Mr. Truesdell was 
sent to take charge of a department at the Webster 
and Pembroke Mills. In 1870, he was promoted 




KD.Ml'.M) K. IRUESDELL. 

to Superintendent and Paymaster of the China, 
Webster, and Pembroke Companies. He was 
Town Treasurer of Pembroke in 1878, '79-'8o and 
'81 ; a member of the Legislature in 1879 '^"'^ 
again in 1880 ; and a member of the State Senate in 
1887 and 1888. He is a Mason of high raid<, a 
member of Jewell Eodge, of which he is Past Mas- 
ter ; Hiram Chapter; Horace Chase Council ; Mt. 
Horeb Commandery ; lioston Lodge of Perfection ; 
Giles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Mt. 
Olivet Chapter, Rose Croix; Massachu.setts Con- 
sistory, and .\lep])o 'I'emple, Nobles of the Mystic 
Shrine. He is a member of the New England Cot- 
ton Manufacturers' Association and the New 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Hampshire Club. In politics he is a Republican. 
He is a member of the Haptist ("hurch at Suncook. 
Mr. 'rruesclcll married June ii, 1S72, Mary \\ il- 
kins Austin, daughter of David Austin. He has 
one son : David lulnunul Truesdell, born in 1876, 
now studvin"" at I'.rown Uni\ersitv, I'rox'itlence. 



\'AR\'K\'. Daviii llLAKK. E.\-Mayor of Man- 
chester, was liorn ill Tuftonlinrough, New Hamp- 
shire, August 27, 1822, son of I^uther and Lvdia 
(Blake) \'arney. On the paternal side he is of 
Scotch descent, and on the maternal side of Eng- 
lish. Mr. N'arnev attended the public scho<ils 
of Dover, New Hani|)shire. In 1831J he went 
to Portsmouth to learn the trade of a machin- 
ist, returned to Dover in 1S42, and removing to 
Manchester in 1843, entered the empl<.iy of the 
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. He was 
Superintendent of the locomotive department of 
that companv for about hve years. In 1S57 he 
opened a lirass foundry and copper shop in Man- 
chester, in which he is still interested. He 
has been a Director in tlic Aniciskeai; National 



f 



l^W V*>^' 




I), r;. v.\RNKY. 

]5ank since 1871, and has been Treasurer of the 
Forsaith Machine Company since 1884. Mr. Var- 
ney was a member of the New Hampshii'e Legis- 
lature from Manclu-ster in 1871 -'72. and was a 
member of the Senate in 1881 -'82. lie was 



Mayor of Manchester in 18S1) "rjo. He is a mem- 
ber of the Derrytield ( 'hili. .uul of all the Masonic 
bodies in the cit\ of his residence. In politics he 
has been a Republican sini e that party was formed. 
Mr. Varney was manied lime (>, 184S, to Harriet 
bean Kimball of Warner, 1)\' whom he had thiee 
children, two of whom are living: Emma E., and 
Annie M., now Mrs. Frederick W. liatcheldei-. 



WEBSTER. Ci,Ai'iiii:s BticiiANAN, M. D,. and 
A. M., was born in Hampton, December 10. 1811:;. 
son of the Reverend losiah and Elizabeth (Knight) 
Webster. His father was graduated from Dart- 
mouth College in 171)8, receiving the degree of 
liachelor of Arts and later the degree of Master of 
Arts. He studied theology with the Reverend 
Stephen Peabody of Atkinson, New Hampshire, 
and on Novemlier 13, 171JI), was ordained to the 
Trinitarian Congregational ministry and installed 
I'astor of the Second Parish church in Ipswich 
(now Esse.x), Massachusetts, where he remained un- 
til June, 1S08, when he was installed Pastor of the 
Congregational church in Hampton, New Hamp- 
shire. There he lilled a successful pastorate until 
his death in 1837. Reverend Josiah Webster was 
the son of Nathan, a farmer of Chester, New Hamp- 
shire, who belonged to the same branch of the 
\\'ebster family from wliiili Daniel Webster de- 
scended and who tr.ued his ancestry Ixick to 
Thomas \\'ebster, who emigrated from ()rmsliy, 
Sutlolk county, England, and settled in Hampton 
about 1650. In England the Webster familv was 
characterized liy honor, stability, and prominence, 
one of its members bearing the same name as the 
colonist, having received the honor of Knighthood. 
The descendants of Thomas Webster, aside from 
the great expountler of the Constitution, include a 
long list of ]3ersons, who ha\e become illustrious, 
not only in their professions, but in literature, the 
arts and the sciences. ( huidius B. Webster was 
fitted for college in Hampton and was graduated 
from Dartmouth in 183(1, being subse(|uentl_v hon- 
ored with the degree of Master of Arts. Among 
his classmates at Hanover were the Reverend Sam- 
uel C. Bartlelt, D. D., 1,1,. D., Ex-President of llie 
College; Professor I'aastiis I'Acrett, LI,. D., of 
ISrooklyn, New \'ork ; ivx-C.oveinor and l^x-Senator 
James W. Crimes, LL. D., from Iowa; Professor 
Edmund R. Peaslec. M. D.. LL. 1 )., of New ^■ork 
city, and Hon. lohn \\ ciilwoilli, LL, I).. .Member 
of Congress from Illinois. .Mr. Webslci was for 
three years a Civil I'aiginecr. and was eiupluved in 



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MEN OF PROCIRKSS. 



the laying out of the Peoria & Warsaw Railroad in 
Ilhnois after his graduation from College : he then 
returned to New Hampshire and studied medicine 
at lioscawen with his brother. Dr. Eliphalet K. 
Webster, and attended a course of lectures at Dart- 
mouth Medical College. I.alei- he was a student 
at the College of l*h\sicians and .Surgeons in New 
York and was graduated in 1844. For a short 
lime he practised his profession and then accepted 
a position as Principal of the Female Academy at 
Norwich, Connecticut, where he remained for six- 
teen years as an able, faithful and conscientious In- 
structor. In the autumn of iS6j, Dr. Webster was 
in Washington. District of Columbia, visiting rela- 
tives, and the result of his visit was his resignation 
from the Academy at Norwich and his becoming 
.\ssistanl .Surgeon in the Ignited States Army. .\t 
that time the Cio\-ernment had upon its hands a 
great responsibility in the care of the sick and dis- 
abled contrabands. When the Confederates were 
forced to move southward, they took with them all 
the able-bodied negroes of lioth se.xes, leaving in 
their w.ike the ill. lame and t)therwise disabled 
colored people. The abandoned negroes, in all 
degrees of destitution, naturally flocked northward 
to Washington. They numbered thousands and the 
wuiUl probably never saw a more piti.ible lot of 
humanity. These unfortunate people were b\- the 
llnited States Government gathered at Camp bar- 
ker, an old cavalry encampment on the outskirts of 
the citv. the site of which is now known as the Iowa 
Circle, upon wliiih ha\e been erected some of the 
mo.st elegant residences in Washington, l^pon this 
ground had been built stables for the horses and a 
large number of huts for the cavalrymen. The 
(Government renovated the camp for the reception 
of these contrabands and a|)pointed Dr. \\'ebster 
Acting Assistant .Surgeon in medical charge with 
nurses to assist him. Dr. Webster remained there 
a year and a half and during tiiat time a temporary 
hospital was erected and other iniprox ements car- 
ried out. I lis dvities were of an arduous and try- 
ing natme, and during his service lumdreds of 
cases of small-po.\ came under his c.ire. In 1S64 
all the people were removed to the General Lee 
estate opposite ^^"ashington where the (lOvernment 
had erected houses for their occupancy and also a 
hospital. Dr. Webster continued in charge of these 
contrabands in their new location for some months, 
when h(,- was ordered to the Southwest with head- 
tpiarters at Louisville, Kentucky, where he was put 
in charge of railway hospital trains that were used 



in conveving sick and wounded soldiers of our 
army from Southern to Northern hospitals. He 
personally accompanied those trains transferring 
the soldiers who were able to travel from hospitals 
as far South as Chattanooga, Tennessee, to hos- 
pitals in the North. While in the performance of 
these duties he was commissioned by (iovernor 
fiuckingham, known as the "War Governor" of 
Connecticut, to care and ])rovide for any soldiers 
belonging to regiments from that stale whom he 
might hud in .Southern hospitals, and for which 
services he declined the remuneration that was 
tendered him. .\fter the discontinuance of the 
hospital trains at the close of the war. Dr. Webster 



t 




ci..\Ul>nis 1;. w i:i;m IK. 

was engaged in forwarding the soldiers still remain- 
ing in the large hos])itals in Louisville and Jeller- 
sonxille (Indiana), to their hcmies or to hospitals 
further north. He continued in that work until 
after the close of the war in 1865. when he was hon- 
orably discharged from the I'nited States service. 
During his three years of hospital work. Dr. Web- 
ster performed from time to time, gratuitous service 
for the I'nited States Sanilar\- Commission. His 
labors for the (joveriHneiit were jjerformed with 
remarkable faithfulness and sincerity, and justly 
entitli'd him to the gratitude of the Nation. After 
leaving the Medical Department of the .Army. Dr. 
Webster returned to Norwich, Connecticut, to 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



' 'S 



enjov a few years of rest and leisure — a vacatinn 
whicli he had well earned. A :;entleman of his 
ability and patriotism, and with so large an ac- 
qiiainlanee with the prominent men of the eountry, 
was not likely to remain long in private life, and 
hence the people of his city were not surprised to 
learn in i^yo, that, entirely unexpectedly and un- 
sought, he had been appointed by President (Irani, 
Ignited States Consul at Sheffield, I'aiglancl, one of 
the most important consulates in (Ireat Ilritain. He 
filled that position until i8S6, when according to 
custom in the changes in the National administra- 
tion, he was succeeded by an appointee of I^resi- 
dent Cleveland. In view of the frequent changes 
in consulates, it is worthy of remark that Dr. Web- 
ster's term of si.xteen j-ears at Sheffield extended 
over four administrations at Washington, and was 
the longest United States Consulship on record in 
that country. It is needless to state that he per- 
formed his duties at Sheffield with dignity, ability 
and fidelity, to the entire satisfaction of the succes- 
sive Presidents from whom he recei\ed his com- 
missions. He made no attempt to become conspic- 
uous in English public life, but devoted his time, 
outside of direct official laljors, to the culti\atiiin ol 
cordial and friendly relations with those English 
manufacturers and merchants who were e.xtensivel)- 
engaged in shipping Sheffield goods to America. 
The extent of this commerce may be shown by the 
fact that in one year during Dr. Webster's tenure 
of office, the value of shipments from Sheffield to 
America amounted to one million li\e hundred 
thousand dollars. While at Sheffield the honor 
devolved upon him to receive Ex-President (Irant 
while on his journey around the world. After the 
announcement was made of the appointment of a 
successor to Dr. Web.ster at Sheftield, the Eondon 
papers expressed sincere regret that there should 
be withdrawn one who had so long represented his 
country with such fidelity, tact and unswerving- 
courtesy. After leaving Sheffield Dr. Webster took 
a long European tour and then returned to New 
Hampshire where he has since made his home, 
although passing more or less time in Washington 
and Chicago. On October 31. 1S44, Dr. Weljster 
was married to Miss .Mary l^li/abctli Webster of 
I'embroke, New Hampshire, a lineal descendant of 
Hannah Dustin. She was a lovely, refined lady, 
and after a happy married life extending over forty- 
two years, death came to her at Sheffield, after a 
long, useful and exem|)lary life. Dr. and Mrs. 
Webster had no children. Dr. Webster had four 



bnitliers; Dr. f^liplialet K. Webster, already 
named; Josiah Webster. .1 f.irmer of Illinois; Pro- 
fes.sor John C. Weljster. D, D.. of Wheaton Col- 
lege, Illinois, and .Major ( leneral [oseph D. Wel)- 
ster. United States Army, who became famous in 
the War of the Rebellion, as Ceneral Grant's Chief 
of Staff, and who In his l)ra\ery and militar)' skill 
while Chief of Artiller\', was credited with having 
turned the tide of battle and seciu'ed the great vic- 
tory for the Union .Xianv at .Sliiloh. The last two 
named were Dartmouth College graduates of the 
class of 1832, while Dr. E. K. Webster was an 
alumnus of the Daitmouth Medical College, thus 
constituting the probaliK- unparalleled record of a 
father and four out of live sons being graduated 
from the same college. The suliject of this sketch 
cherishes a livel}- interest in his Alma Mater and is 
President of the Dartmouth .Alumni Association 
f)f the Concord. New Hampshire, District. He is 
also a member of the New Hampshire Historical 
Society. Dr. Webster is a gentleman of modest 
and letiring manners, frank and generous sympa- 
thies, an extensive reader, the possessor of a great 
fund of general information and keeps posted upon 
all the great National and other issues of the day. 
lie is a member of the South Congregational 
church of Concord, New Hampshire. 



WENTWORTll. CidKiii, .Vi.r.Kkr. President of 
Exeter bank, was hoin in W aketield. New Hamp- 
shire, lul)' 31, 1S35, son of Edmund and Eliza 
(Eang) Wentworth. He is a ilescendant of Elder 
William ^^'entworth who settled in Exeter and 
signed the E.xeter Combination in 1639. On the 
maternal side he comes of good old New England 
stock. He received his earl)- edu( ation in the 
common school and Academy of his native town, 
prepared for college at I'hillips i^xeter Academy, 
entered Harvard in 1855 and was graduated in the 
class of '58. In the same year, he went to Exeter 
as Instructor in Latin and (Sreek. became Profes- 
sor of Mathematics in Phillips .\cademy in 1859, 
and held the position until the close of 1891. Mr. 
Wentworth has ])ublished a series of text books of 
mathematics. The work on geoinelr\- was lirst 
iniljlished in 1880 and has completely revolution- 
ized the method of teaching that science. Over 
live hundred thousand co|)ies ol the book have 
been sold. He has jjublished a series of Algebras, 
of which over one million copies have been sold ; 
and a series of Arithmetics whic h ha\'e had an 



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extraordinary sale. He has also published a Trigo- 
nometry. Surveying, and Navigation, and an Analytic 
Geometry, that are used in nearly all the Colleges, 
and the principal Secondary Schools in the country. 
Mr. Wentuorth has been a Trustee of the Robinson 
Seminary and is at present President of the Exeter 
Banking CompanN'. In politics !io is a Republican. 




CEO. .-\. \vi;m uuKrii. 

He married. August. 1864. Emily |. Hatch, of 
Codington. Kentucky. They have three children : 
Ellen Lang, George, and Edmund Hatch Went- 
worth. 



Willi TKMOKi:. Auriirk C.ii.man, Lawyer, 
Concord, was born in Pembroke, Julv, 1S56, son 
of Hon. Aaron and .\riannah ( Harstow) Whittemore. 
He is eighth in line from his ancestor Thomas, 
who immigrated from Hitchin Parish, t'ountv of 
Hertfordshire, l')ngland. and settled in Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, in 1642. He is a great-great-grand- 
son of Rev. Aaron Whittemore, the first settled 
Pastor of the Congregational Church in Pembroke, 
(formerly Suncook), ordained Pastor March 2, 1738 
(a graduate of Harvard College in 1732). His 
great-grandfather. Aaron Whittemore, was a soldier 
in the Revolutionary War. His father and grand- 
father were Associate Justices of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas for Merrimack county. On his mother's 
side he is a lineal descendant of Elder William 



firewster. one of the Mayflower pilgrims. He 
was educated at Pembroke Academy and Harvard 
Law School and was admitted to the liar in March. 
1879. Soon afterwards he associated with the late 
Judge C. W. Woodman of Dover in the practice 
of the law, which ])artnership continued luilil the 
death of Judge Woodman in 1888. Since that 
time Mr. Whittemore has practised alone. Hy 
strict application to his chosen profession he has 
gained an extensive and lucrative practice and 
with it the confidence and respect of the whole 
community in which he lives. He is attorney for 
and one of the Trustees of the StralTord Savings 
Bank, one of the largest and strongest savings 
banks in the .state. He is also the attorney for 
the Dover Co-operative Bank. When the Dover 
National Bank failed in 1895 Mr. Whittemore was 
appointed Receiver and although the defalcation 
of its late cashier exceeded the capital stock Mr. 
Whittemore so successfully liquidated the remain- 
ing assets as to pay the depositors in full with 
interest and a substantial dividend to the stock- 
holders. He has identified himself witli all the 




.vKruiK c. will 1 11. Mure. 

public enterprises that concern the welfare of his 
adopted city. In 1887, when the city built a new 
system of water works he was elected Water Com- 
missioner and has held the office to the present 
time. He is a member and one of the organizers 



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of tlir licll.iniy ('luh, a business man's S(ji-ial i hil). i8<S5 to i.SSc), and a nuaiiluT of the I ,rL;islalni c in 
He married June 27. iS.Sy, ( 'aroline li. Rundlett. i,S,,3. He was elected IMaMir in Noveniher, 1 S9O. 
They ha\'e two t liildren : Mau\el and Caroline lie is a Mason, a niend)er ol K ane l,od.s;e, Lisbon. 
\\'hilteinore. In ]3olitics he is a Republican. Me is a nienibca' 

and vestryman of Si. Rani's T'.piscopal Church of 

W < i( •! iW ( iRi'll. .\i.iiKRT lli.\c;iiAM, .M.iyor of Concord. Mr. Woodwortli married, Septendier 50, 

Concord, was born in Dorchester, New I lampshire, '^73- ^Riry -\nj;eline Rarkei', of Lisbon. They 

.\pril 7, i,S4-, son of tieorge and Louisa (Ilovey) have three childien : Ivlwaicl Knowllon, born .\u- 

gu.st 25, 1875; Cracc', born ()clol)er 5, 1879, ■•"'^' 



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Charles I'arker, born |uly S, iSSc;. 



WAIT.ACI';, .\i,ia':k'i-, Shoe Manufactiuer, Roch- 
ester, was born in that town June d. iSi:;4, son of 
Ebenezer C. and Saiah E. ((ireenhelcl ) Wallace. 
His ancestors on both sides came to this country 
in the early days and man)- of tlnan fought in the 
Revolutionary War on the side of the Colonists. 
He was educated in the- public schools of his nati\e 
town anc:l at the South llcawic k Academv. Later, 
he entered Dartmcuith Colle-e and w.is ;;i.ulu.ited 
in the class of 1S77. I'cjr a lime he worked in a 
tannery aiul in a shoe factory, and since iS.So has 
been engaged in the m.nuifac lure of leather goods 



ALlU'.kr 1:. \\ ilciliWOklH. 



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Wooilwortli. His grandfather, Sylvanns Wood- 
worth, came from Leijanon, ( 'onnet ticnt. with Elea- 
zer Wheelock when he founded Dartmouth College, 
and he afterwards fought in the Re\dlutionarv War, 
taking part in the battle of llnnkca Hill, under 
Israel Rutnam. Albert Woodworth moved with his 
parents to Hebron wdien he was two years of age, 
and lu-re he attended the c:listrict school and took a 
course at Roscawen Academ)-. I'or four years he 
was employed by 1). E. Willard of ( )rford, the next 
four years was in business at W.irren, and in 
1868. he succeeded Parker cV Young of Lisbon, Jn 
1873, he engaged in the retail grocery business in 
Concord in company with his brother I'Alwaid, .uid 
two years later, bought the wholesale and jobbing 
business of Hutchins cS: Company, He was one of 
the founders ol the I'arker \' \'oimg Mannfac turing 
Company of J^isbon, and is now its President. In 
1880 he became |3art owner of that famous hostelry, 
the " 'lip- ro|) Mouse." lie was .McKaman frcjin 




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Ai,iU';K'r WAij.Aci:. 

and shoes. He was a inembei uf tin- Legislature 
in i.Sc;3,ancl of the Staiate in iScjy. In iSijH he 
was elected to the City Council f<jr a team of three 
years. Mr. Wallace is a Mason. In politics he is 
a Republican. He married. Ma)-, 1883, Rosalie K. 



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Burr, of Rochester, who died in September, 1888, 
leaving one child : Louis 1!. Walhicc. In October. 
1894, he married Fannie S. Chadbourne of Water- 
town, Massachusett.s. They have two children : 
Sarah |., and Eben Wallace. 



WILLIAMSON. Walter Darwin, Physician, 
Corhani, was born in Milan, New Hampshire, 
March 1 1, 1863, son of Stephen K. and Ellen E. 
(Ellingwood) Williamson. He was graduated from 
the North Uridgton Academy at North Bridgton, 
.\Liine, and took a post-graduate course at the 
Maine W'eslevan Seminary and Female College. 
He was graduated frcim the Medical College of the 




W. 11. WILLIAMSON. 

University of Vermont in 1888, winning the sec- 
ond prize. He took a further course in medicine 
at the Post-graduate College in New \'ork in i88g. 
He also took a course in this School in 1893 and 
1897. Doctor Williamson began his practice in 
Milan, l)ut removed to Ciorham, ( )ct(iber 16, 1889, 
where he has since resided. During President 
Harrison's administration he was a member of the 
'J'ension Examining lioard at Lancaster. He has 
been Di-strict Surgeon for the Crand Trunk Rail- 
way since 1892. He is a member of the Maine 
Medical Association ; of the New Hampshire Med- 
ical Society ; of the O.xford County Medical Asso- 
ciation, and of the International Association of 



Railroad Surgeons, hi politics he is a Republican. 
Doctor Williamson was married F'ebruary 15, 1890, 
to Hattie M. York of Milan. They have one 
(laughter: F.leanor E. Williamson, born ,\ugust 30, 
1894. 



WILKINSON, Solon Stone, Merchant, Keene, 
was born in Marlborough, New Hampshire. March 
22, 1 828. in one of the most romantic and pictur- 
esque towns in the Granite state. His eye was 
early charmed with numerous vales and hills which 
were overtopped with Mount Monadnock. He 
was a robust boy, bubbling over with life, being 
exceedingly fond of nature. He delighted to en- 
gage in innocent sports and revel by the brooks 
and ponds. He was a jolly boy among his play- 
fellows, and when he laughed, it was so hearty, 
they could but laugh, too. At five years of age 
he was in the district school, learning the F^nglish 
alphabet and how to count by numbering his fin- 
gers. He was loved by teacher and pupils. As 
the years went on, he advanced in the public school 
branches, ranking high in deportment and class 
work. He early exhibited a fondness for military 
display, and so organized the boys of his age into 
companies, marching them through the streets, and 
when but about fifteen years old he became one of 
the leading officers in a boys' artillery company, 
which made quite a showing at the old May train- 
ings and fall musters. He made the most possi- 
ble out of the public and select schools in his 
native town, anil then attended for some time the 
academy in Putney, Vermont, So with his natural 
ability and diligence, when he reached his majority, 
he was looked upon as one well fitted for his life 
work. At twenty-one lie was the picture of health, 
being tall, straight, and of fine proportions ; his 
complexion was light and Horid. Looking at him 
physically and mentally, he was a fine specimen of 
a young man. How could it be otherwise, being 
of superior parentage? His father, David Wilkin- 
son, Jr., was far more than the average man, physi- 
cally and intellectually, and his mother, Patty (Hub- 
bard) \\"ilkinson, was possessed of rare gifts as to 
looks and character ; she was a N'enus in face and 
form, and a veritable Dorcas in her home and in 
society. His pedigree away back is of a high 
order. His grandfather, David Wilkinson, was a 
grandson of Elijah Wilkinson, born in England, 
and his great-grandmother was a native of Scot- 
land. His grandfather, David, was one of the 
foremost men in his native town, Sharon, Massa- 



mf:n of progress. 



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chusetts. He became prominent in iuilitai\- aftairs 
before and after the Revolutionary War, and as 
the alarm was sounded. April 19, 177V he went 
forth doing valiant service for his country. He 
was with \\'ashington's arni\- at \'allev Forge, and 
was discharged with honors at the close of the war. 
It is in no wise strange that the grandson, Solon 
Stone Wilkinson, should ha\'e inherited a Hking 
for martial evolutions and chivalrous display ; how- 
ever, he was brought up to labor as were his fore- 
fathers, and, accordingly, he thoroughly learned of 
his father the harness and saddler's trade in all its 
details. As he adxanced from an ap|3rentice to a 
journeyman he was well equipped for his business. 
June 22, 1852, he married C'hestina Howker Hol- 
man, an estimable 3oung woman of abilitx' and 
promise ; two truer hearts were never wedded. 
They located in Marlborough. Jiefore his mar- 
riage he became associated in business with his 
older brother, Warren Wilkinson, in the harness 
and saddle business, carrying it on in Marlborough 
and Peterborough, New Hampshire, and in Green- 
field, Massachusetts. In 1854 he bought out the har- 
ness and saddle business of his younger brother, 
C_\'rus K. Wilkinson, at Keene, New JIam|3shire, 
and settled there with his famih' in a pleasant 
home where thev still reside. In iSfn he went 
into business with his l)i other. Warren, at Spring- 
field, Massachusetts, manufacturing war equipments 
on an extensive scale. In 1869 he became inter- 
ested in the Monadnock Jllanket Company and 
was its Treasurer for fifteen years. In 1S78 he 
took into partnership Daniel McGregor, manufac- 
turing harness in large numbers, employing many 
men, and doing an extensive business in selling 
harness wares and trunks ; and they are still active 
in trade. Mr. Wilkinson has always been a public- 
spirited man, being deeply interested in his native 
town, his adopted city, his state, nation, and the 
world. He was born of Whig ancestry, and has 
been himself a wide-awake Republican since he 
was old enough to vote. Slavery he abhorred and 
worked with his might for its overthrow in this 
country. While he never made any pretension to 
learning or speech-making, nevertheless when forced 
to speak on public occasions, he has been cfpial to 
the responsibility and acquitted himself with honor. 
He never has been an office-seeker, and the im- 
portant public positions which he has filled. ha\'e 
sought him, and every time he has added dignity 
and character to them. As early as 1S47 he was 
commissioned Fir.st Lieutenant in the I'iflh ( 'om- 



pany of the 'I'welfth New Hampshire Militia; and 
later he was foremost in organizing the (ireenheld 
Artillery Company at (jreenheld. Massachusetts, and 
was chosen its first comm.mdei', but he declined 
to serve. In 1S68 he was sent to the State Legis- 
lature, and was re-elected the following year. In 
1875 he was chosen .Mderman from his ward for 
two years in succession. In 1883 he was commis- 
sioned Quartermaster-General on the staff of Gov- 
ernor Hale, In 1886 he was made an honorary 
member of the Keene Light Guards. He has been 
for years a Trustee, anil is now President, of the 
Academy Fund Association of Keene, and has been 
an efficient Trustee of the ]''ive Cents Sa\'insrs 



/ 




S. S. WILKINSON, 

Rank of his city. He has always been a man who 
has looked closeU' .ifter his own business, feeling 
this to be a necessity, to make it a success, as he 
has; yet he has found time to perform creditably 
outside duties whit li lia\e been imposed upon him. 
Now and then on some important occasions he has 
indulged in outings. He was at the dedication of 
the Washington monumrnt on the biinks of the 
Potomac, and participated officially in the two 
hundredth anniversary of the evacuation of New^ 
York by the llritish. Mr. Wilkinson is social and 
cordial, making his friends teel ;il once as they 
come into his presence that they ha\e got into 
good <(>nip.in\. ;in(l simn llie\- ;iie m;ule ;iware that 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



he can give or take a good joke with grace. While 
he admires the courage of a Cromwell, he does 
enjoy the fun of a FalstafT. He shakes hands as 
though there was a big heart close by, and when 
he laughs there is an occasion for it, and like Doc- 
tor Franklin's whistle, it comes itself, and all in 
his company can but join in his hearty merriment. 
His good nature and readiness to help others have 
always drawn about him throngs of friends, ren- 
dering him a most desirable member of social 
organizations. In i860 he was made a Mason in 
Social Friends Lodge of Keene, becoming its Mas- 
ter in 1865. He advanced through the Royal Arch 
Chapter, becoming a Knight in Hugh de Payens 
Comniandery, and in 1878 was chosen its Eminent 
("ommander. He ranks high among the Free Masons 
in his adopted city and in the state. Religiously 
he is a Congregationalist. having been an active 
church member for more than half a century, work- 
ing on various lines, and for years he was a Teach- 
er and then Superintendent in the Sunday-school. 
While he is loyal to his church, he is no dogmatic 
and narrow sectarianist. His home is the dearest 
place to him on earth. He and his worthy and 
beloved companion have long journeyed together 
hand in hand and hearts made one. They have 
been highly blest with a noble son. Edward Holman 
Wilkinson, who is a prominent manufacturer at 
Holyoke and a leading public man in Springfield, 
Massachusetts, Mr. Wilkinson, though having 
reached the allotted age of man, is well preserved, 
vigorous and straight, and still active in business. 
It would seem as if he had the constitution and 
carefully preserved physical powers which promise 
that his egress will be late to heaven. Unlike 
gross Esau he never has sold his birthright for a 
mess of pottage, but like Jacob he has discovered a 
ladder of light reaching to heaven, and he has ever 
been endeavoring to ascend it, and those who have 
known him best believe that he has made good 
progress and will at length be welcomed into the 
fadeless light with the angelic plaudit, " Well 
done," leaving a good name behind, and bearing 
with him many a precious gift to enrich and beau- 
tifv the inunorlal life. 



i'.llA I ri Is, W'li.i.Lwi loHssdN', Physician. Little- 
ton, was born in Ryegate, N'ermont, September 6, 
1864, son of James Miiligan and Margaret Sophia 
(Nelson) Beattie. His maternal grandfatlier. John 
Nelson, was of Scotch descent, and was the first 
male child born in Ryegate. His maternal grand- 



mother was born in Acworth, New Hampshire, and 
was of Irish descent. His grandfather, John Heat- 
tie, was born in Orange county, New York. Doctor 
Beattie received his education at the district school 
of his native place, at Peacham Academy, and at 




\\ ILLIAM J. I'l A I I 11:. 

St. Johnsbury .\cademy, Vermont. He was gradu- 
ated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
March 12, 1889. In the course of his studies he 
spent a year in the hospital work. He began prac- 
tice- in Littleton, in May, 1889, and has remained 
there ever since. He is a Mason, a Knight of 
Pythias, a charter member of the Cohashauke Club 
of Littleton. In politics, he is a Republican. He 
married. May 29, 1890, Elizabeth A. Tuttle. They 
have two daughters : Margaret, born January 18, 
1891, and liarbara Beattie, born December 28, 1897, 



BRENNAN, J.\mes Fr.\ncis, Lawyer, Peterbor- 
ough, was born in that town March 31, 1853. His 
father, Hubert Brennan, a native of Lavagh, Count)' 
Roscommon. Ireland, came to America in 1845, 
settling si.\ years later in Peterborough, where he 
built up a large marble and granite business, and 
by his public spirit and enterprise added greatly to 
the material advancement of the town. His 
mother's maiden name was Mary Mahoney, a 
native of Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. The 
subject of our sketch received his preliminary edu- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



cation in the common schools and academy of his 
native village, and learned the trade of marble 
carxing at his father's establishment. In iSSo, he 
commenced the study of law in the office of Charles 
Poe. Baltimore, and after a three years" course in 
the Law School of the I'niversity of Maryland, 
graduated in the class of '84, receiving the degree 
of Bachelor of Law. He was admitted to practice 
at the New Hampshire Bar, August 2.S, 18S4, the 
United States Court the ne.xt year, and establishing 
an office in Peterborough has since attained an 
excellent law practice ; he is employed in much 
important litigation, and is accorded the conhdence 
of the community in which he lives. Mr. Brennan 
is a Democrat in politics and has done efficient 
work for his party on the stump. In the November 
election of 1886 he ran largely ahead of the general 
ticket as his party's candidate for County Solicitor, 
this being the only time he has allowed his name 
to be used as a candidate for a political office. He 
is unmarried, has an extended actpiaintance 
throughout the state, and possesses a hnst of 
friends. He has served on the board of Town 



BROWN, Or..\N(;f. Snur, Resident Agent of 
the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company, was 




JAMES F. BRENNAN. 

Auditors, Library Connnittee, School ISoard, and 
Bank Director in his native town, lie is a lover of 
books, and possesses a very line law library. Mr. 
Brennan's career exemplifies what integrity and 
unaided industry can acc(lmpli^h. 



born in Slaters\ille. Rhode 
land H. and Nancy M. 
His father was a native 



Island, son of Row- 
( W'hitinarsh) Brown, 
(if Ninth Kini'stnn, 




O. S. I'.ROWN. 

Rhode Lsland, his mother of East dreenwich, 
in that state. His father was of English descent. 
He has long been connected with the Salmon Falls 
Manufacturing Company, a corporation with a cap- 
ital of six hundred thousand dollars, devoted to the 
manufacture of fine and fancy goods, sateens, etc.. 
and he has held the position of .\gent for twent}- 
three years. 



BELLOW'S, JosiAH CiKAiiMK, Lawyer and Rail- 
road Commissioner, Walfxile, was born in that town. 
Inly 24, 1841, son of josiah Bellows, ^d. He is 
sixth in descent from |(ihn Bellows, who embarked 
for this country in the Hopewell, of London, April 
I, 1635, and settled at Concord, Massachusetts. 
His grandson, Colonel Benjamin Bellows, the great- 
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was the 
founder of Walpole, a man of much note and influ- 
ence on what was then known as the frontier, jo- 
siah Bellows, the youngest son of Colonel Benjamin 
liellows. passed his entire life in Walpole as a farm- 
er, managing with prudence and success his consid- 
eraljle landed estate, wliic h he inherited fr<im his 



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father. Josiali ]?ello\vs, 3CI, who also spent his en- 
tire life in Walpole, was a merchant and did a large 
and successful business; was interested lo a consid- 
erable extent in the fur trade in connection with 
John Jacob Astor. As Josiah Grahnie Hellows has 
passed practically his whole lifetime in Walpole. the 
family thus presents the unusual fact of three gen- 
erations living out their lives in the village, covering 
a period of one hundred and forty-six years. ( )n 
the maternal side. Mr. liellows is descended from 
the Newmans, an old Boston family, through his 
great-grandmother, Margaret Newman, who married 
just before the breaking out of the Revolution. Cap- 
tain William Henry Milliquet, then a Captain in the 
English Army which garrisoned Boston under Gen- 
eral Gage. The Captain left the army on his mar- 
riage, and died soon after the Revolution in Eng- 
land, where he was making a visit. His family was 
one of considerable consequence in that country. 
A daughter, Mary, the maternal grandmother of .Mr. 
Bellows, married Richard Grahme, an Englishman 
of Scotch ancestrv'. Mr. Bellows was delicate in 
boyhood, but by following the advice of the family 




J. C;. H EL LOWS. 

physician, and living as much as possible in the 
open air, he gradually strengthened his con.stitution 
until he is able to do more than the axfCrage amount 
of work. He was prepared for college in the Wal- 
pole High School, and in the private school of E. 



H. Barstow in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. He 
entered Harvard College in 1859. and after remain- 
ing three months removed to Williams College and 
for a year was a member of the class of 1863. His 
health not being sufficiently established to bear 
close confinement, he gave up the plan of complet- 
ing a college course. .Xbout the beginning of 1862, 
he began the study of law in the office of Hon. 
Frederick Vose of Walpole. In March, 1863, he 
entered Harvard Law School, and was graduated 
in 1865, when he entered the office of George, Fos- 
ter & Sanborn, of Concord, being admitted to the 
Bar of New Hampshire in the same year, at the 
December law term of Merrimack county. Mr. 
Bellows began the practice of law in Walpole about 
January, i866, but soon after his marriage in the 
summer of that year he opened an office in Boston, 
and remained there in business most of the time 
until 1S72. For a year and a half of this time he 
was Chief Clerk in the United States Pension Office 
in Boston, and afterwards was located in the office 
of Charles S. Lincoln, a native of Walpole, Six 
months of 187 i he spent in European travel. LIpon 
the death of Mr. Vose, November 16, 187 1, Mr. 
liellows purchased Mr. \'ose's law office in Walpole 
and succeeded him in practice. He was appointed 
judge of Probate for Cheshire county. July 25, 
1876, and held the position until Januar}' i, 1894, 
resigning to accept the appointment as Railroad 
Commissioner of the State of New Hampshire. 
He was re-appointed for three years by Governor 
Ramsdell. and is Clerk of the Board. Governor 
.Smith in 1894 appointed him a member of the com- 
mission to ascertain and establish the true jurisdic- 
tional line between Massachusetts and New Hamp- 
shire. In 1895, as Chairman of the Board, he pre- 
pared an able report, which was duly submitted to 
the Legislature. The plan of settlement which was 
proposed was adopted b\' Massachusetts and New- 
Hampshire and thus a long dispute was ended. 
Mr. Bellows was a leader in the establishing of the 
Saxings Bank of Walpole. and he has been its 
Clerk and Treasurer from its formation in 1875 to 
the present time. He is a Director in the Keene 
National Bank, and for many years a Trustee of 
the Cheshire Provident Association of Keene. He 
was Judge Advocate General on the staff of Gov- 
ernor Sawyer from i887-"89, and was President of 
the State Republican Convention in 1890. He 
has delivered many addresses on important occa- 
sions, among them, one to the citizens of Walpole 
in memory of General Grant ; another and very 



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highly inteifsting sketch of Roger and Frederick 
Yose at the annual meeting of the Southern New 
Hampshire liar Association in 1894. Mr. Bellows 
married in Concord, June 26, 1866, Annie E. Mor- 
rill who died in Cambridge, April J, 1867. He 
married in W'alpole, Nox'ember 21, 1877, Catherine 
Hnrd Walley, daughter of Aaron Prentiss and 1 h;l- 
dah (Burke) Howland. Mrs. IJellows comes from 
old New England stock, and is a member of the 
Colonial Dames of the State of New Hampshire, 
and one of the Iioard of Managers. He has one 
child : Mary Howland l-lellows. born in W'alpole, 
September 18, 1878, now a member of the class of 
1901 of Smith's College. Northampton, Massachu- 
setts. 



]iRICj(}S, J.\MEs F"R.\NKi..\Nr), Eawyer, Manches- 
ter, Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Repre- 
sentatives, was born in I!ur_\-, Lancashire, England. 
C'ctober 23, 1827, son of John and Nancy (Frank- 
land) Briggs. When he was less than two years 
old, the famih' remo\ed to this countr\' and became 
residents of Ashland, New Hampshire. In this 
town the boy spent his early boyhood at work in 
the mill. When he was fourteen years old, how- 
ever, he attended the school at Newbury, \'ermont, 
afterwards studying at 'I'ilton until 1S4S. He took 
up the study of law with William C. 'I'hompson of 
Plymouth, then with Joseph Burrows of Holder- 
ness, and afterwards with Judge Nehemiah lUitler 
of Roscawen. He was admitted to the liar in 1851, 
and immediately began practice at Hillsborough 
Bridge, where he soon became one of the most 
successful lawyers of the town. In i857-'58 and 
'59. he was a member of the Legislature from Hills- 
borough. When the war broke out he entered the 
army, becoming Quartermaster of New Hampshire 
Volunteers. In 187 i, he removed to Manchester, 
where he built up a lucrative business. He was 
again elected a member of the House of Represen- 
tatives in 1874. In 1876. he was elected to the 
Constitutional Convention,, and also the State 
she was nonnnatec 



Senate. 



sd for Con- 



gress and was three times elected, each time by an 
increasing majority and serving with conspicuous 
ability. He was again elected to the Legislature 
in 1883 ; in i88(j was a member of the Constitu- 
tional C'onvention. and in 1891 was returned to the 
Legislature. He served once more in this body at 
the session of 1897, and was elected Speaker of the 
House. Besides caring for the duties of his pro- 
fessional work, Mr. Briggs has been active as a 



projector of a number of enterprises. i\mong the 
offices he has held are: President of the Hillsbor- 
ough National ISank; President nf the Granite 
State Trust Ciimpan\- ; President of the (^ueen City 
Land and Building Association; Director of the 




JAMES F. likllKiS. 

Citizens' P.uilcling and Loan Associati(jn, and of 
the People's (Jas Light Companw Mr. ISriggs was 
married in 1850, to Ro.xanna Smith of Holderness. 
They have had three children, two of whom are 
now living. 



C'ARXELLF, Henkv I )k\N"oi,fe, a Specialist in 
Diseases of the Eye and Eai', Manchester, was born 
in Richmiind, New Brunswick, May 26, iS52,son 
of lames S. and Elizabeth ( Porter) d'arxell. In the 
paternal line he is of Dutch descent, the family 
having been lung resident in l"',ngland. < )ne of his 
ancestors fought with William the CniiqLicror in the 
Battle of Hastings. The name is prominent in 
English history. The first ( 'aivell to come to 
this country settled in New jeisey, in the last 
half of the sexenteenth cenlur\-. The famil\- was 
strongly Inval in its sentiments, and the great- 
grandfather (if the suliject of this sketch, J.icob 
Carvell, was noted for his staunch adherence to the 
Crown, and was imprisoned by the Revolutionar)' 
party, but he escaped, and fought at the Battle of 
Bunker Hill. At the close of the war, he, with 



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other loyalists, went to New Brunswick, and settled 
there. Doctor Carvelle began his early education 
in the public schools. In 1873 he became Medical 
Attendant at the Jioston Kye and Kar Infirmary, 
where he remained two years. He pursued his 
studies through the guidance of Doctor Albert N. 
Blodgett, Superintendent of the Institution. He 
was graduated from the Harvard Medical College 
in 1878, after a three years' course. He has at 
various times taken special courses at New York, 
Moorfields' Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England, 
and the Eye and Ear Clinics of Paris. After leav- 
ing college, he settled in Boston for a short time, 
but soon moved to Manchester. He continued in 




H. II. LARVELLE. 

general practice until 1884, when he devoted him- 
self to the treatment of the eye and ear. As a 
specialist he ranks high, being the first ophthalmic 
and aural surgeon in New Hampshire, and is fre- 
quently called to all parts of the state in difficult 
cases. During his last year at Har\ard College he 
assisted Doctor Edward Waldo Emerson in his 
practice for a month, residing at the home of 
Ralph Waldo Emerson, where his associations 
with the distinguished family were exceedingly 
delightful. He is Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon 
at the Elliott Hospital, .Manchester, and Medical 
E.xaminer for the Northwestern Life Insurance 
Company. He is a member of the Calumet tMub 



of Manchester; of the New Hampshire Medical 
Society ; of the New England Ophthalmological 
Society of Boston ; a Censor of the Medico-Chirur- 
gical College of Philadelphia ; an honorary mem- 
ber of L. Webster Fox Ophthalmological Society of 
Philadelphia, of the Ophthalmological section of 
the American Medical Association, and of the Pan- 
American Medical Congress. In politics he is a 
Republican. Doctor Carvelle was married Ma_v 
5, 1893, to Anna Brewster Sullivan, of Suncook, 
New Hampshire. They have one child : Euphro- 
syne P. Carvelle, born May 16. 1S94. 



CHASE. Wii.i.iAM Martin. Justice of the Su- 
preme Court of New Hampshire, Concord, was 
born in Canaan, New Hampsiiire. December 28, 
1S37. son of Horace and .Abigail (Martin) Chase. 
His father was the son of Joseph, the third child of 
Moody, the tenth child of Joseph, the eighth child 
of Moses, the eleventh child of Acquilla Chase, 
who came from England to Hampton. New Hamp- 
shire, and settled about 1639, taking an important 
part in the development of the young community. 
judge Chase's mother was the daughter of William 
Martin, son of Robert, son of William, son of 
Nathaniel, who came from Raphoe Parish. Donegal 
county, Ireland, to Londonderry, New Hampshire. 
William, son of Nathaniel, removed from London- 
derry to Pembroke, New Hampshire, about 1763. 
The subject of this sketch attended the common 
schools, Canaan Union Academy, and, in the fall 
of 1852, Kimball Union Academy. He was gradu- 
ated from Dartmouth College, Chandler Depart- 
ment, in 1848, and received the honorary degree of 
A. M. from Dartmouth in 1879. During his col- 
lege course he taught district schools, and after 
graduation he taught mathematics and the sciences 
in Henniker Academy. He was admitted to the 
Bar in Merrimack county, on August 21, 1862, hav- 
ing studied law with Anson S. Marshall, whose 
partner he was from January, 1863, until the death 
of Mr. Marshall, July 4, 1874, under the firm name 
of Marshall iS: Chase. For the ne.xt five years he 
was a partner of the late Chief Justice J. Everett 
Sargent, under the firm name of Sargent tV Chase; 
and from 1879 he was a partner of Frank S. 
Streeter. under the firm name of Chase iS; Streeter. 
until March, 1891, when he was appointed Asso- 
ciate Ju.stice of the Supreme Court. During all 
these years his practice was carried on in Concord. 
He was Clerk of the New Hampshire .Senate in 
1 871; Trustee of the State Library, i874-'88; 



MKN OF PR(X;RESS. 



'25 



Trustee of the State Normal School, iS76-'79; 
one of the Commissioners to revise the Public 
Laws under the act of July 30. 1SS9, resulting in 
the adoption of the " Public Statutes;" member of 
the Board of Education of the I'nion School Dis- 
trict at Concord in iS69-'75. and iS83-'96, hold- 
ing the office of President of the board for four or 
five years of the latter term ; member of the ISoard 
of Water Commissioners of Concord, iSyy-'i)] ; 
Trustee of DartuTiuth College from 1890 to the 
present time ; Director of the First National Hank 
at Concord from 1S75 *" ''^'^ present time, being 
President of the Mank in 1SS3 and 1S84 ; member 
of the Connnittee for F.xamination of .Students for 



•Wfe*- 




\VM. M. CHASE. 

admission to the Bar, iS78-'9i. He is an hono- 
rary member of Phi Beta Kappa Societv of Dart- 
mouth College; member of the New Hampshire 
Historical Society; member of the New England 
Historical and (Genealogical Society, and a member 
of the Society of Sons of the American Revolution. 
In politics he is a Democrat. He married, March 
18, 1863, Ellen S. Abbott, daughter of Aaron and 
Nancy (Badger) Abbott of Concord. He has one 
son: Arthur H. Chase, born Februar)- 16, 1864. 

CLARK, Lewis VVhitehouse, Chief Justice of 
the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, Manches- 
ter, was born in Barnstead, New FLimpshire, Au- 



gust 19, 1828, son of Jeremiah and Hannah (White- 
house) Clark, lie was educated in Pittsfield and 
.Atkinson Acatlemies and at Dartmouth College, 
from which he was graduated in the class of 1S50. 
He immediately began his special prejaaration for 
his chosen profession and at the same time was 
Principal of the PittsHeld Academy, from August, 
1850, to December. 1852, with eminent success. 
Fie began his law studies with Moses Norris, con- 
tinuing them imder the direction of the Hon. A. 
1''. I^. Norris. and on .September 3, 1852, was ad- 
mitted to the Bar of New Hampshire to commence 
a career of professional service that has been alike 
honorable tii himself and creditalile to the common- 
wealth of which he is a citizen. He practiced law 
in Pittslield until April 1, 18(10, l;>ut his abilities 
were such as soon to call him to the metropolis of 
the state, where he has since resided, one of its 
best belo\ed citizens. He liecame a member of 
the firm of Morrison, Stanley Ov Clark, his asso- 
ciates being the Hon. George W. Morrison and the 
Hon. Clinton W. Stanley. After remaining with 
them for about seven years, he formed a law part- 
nership with the Hon. Henry H. Huse. 'Fhe firm 
of Clark iv Huse continued until Ma_\' 24, 1872, 
when Mr. Clark was appointed Attorney-General 
of the state, a position he held with great credit to 
liinrself and benefit to the state, until August. 1876. 
His ability and learning as a lawyer, his faithful 
discharge of the duties of Attorney-( General of the 
state, and his marked judicial al:iilit\' pointed to 
him as the man to fill the vatanc}- which had <jc- 
curred on the .Supreme bench, and on August 13, 
1877, he was appointed Judge of the Supreme 
Court of New Hampshire, an appointment which 
was highl\- satisfactory to the Bar of the state. 
Politicallv, Judge Clark is a Democrat and while 
not a partisan, lias been a wise and honored leader 
of the Democratic part)-. In 1865 he was the 
nominee of his party for Congress, in the Second 
Congressional District. He served as a member of 
the Legislature from Pittsfield in 18:^6 and 18:^7. 
Upon his elevation to the Supreme Jiench, in 
accordance with his high sense of honor, he with- 
drew from active participation in politics, while he 
still remained profoinidly interested in all i|uestions 
relating to his country's weal. ( )n tlu' tlealh of 
Chief Justice Carpenter in May, 1898, |udge ('lark 
was api)ointetl by (Governor Ramsdell to (ill his 
place as (hiet justice of the Supreme Court of 
New Hampshire. The piivale character of ludge 
Clark is one of stainless integritv. His mind is 



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MEN OF PROf.RKSS. 



eminentl)- one of self-poise aiul unusually perfect 
adjustment. He possesses in an unusual degree 
the power to grasp all sides of the questions that 
come under his notice, and deal with them with 
calmness. He is preeminently a lawyer; he loves 




his profession, and whether at the bar pleading, or 
on the bench deciding, he is alwa3's the searching, 
candid, judicial-minded lawyer. Socially, Judge 
Clark is cheerful, cordial, of great amiability, and 
in all his bearing, through all, is marked by a 
large-hearted kindness and perfect simplicity. His 
whole character is permeated by profound religious 
conviction. Personally he is a Baptist, being one 
of the staunchest supporters of the People's Taber- 
nacle of Manchester. He is prominently identified 
with the McAulev Mission. As a citizen, his large 
influence is eminrnth' (le])en(Ied u]j(in in behalf of 
the public well being. In December, 1852. Judge 
Clark married Helen iM.. daughter of Captain Wil- 
liam Knowltim 111 I'iltsliild. lie has two children 
now living: .Mary Helen and |ohn Lew Clark. 



was spelled de Daunporte ; the de was dropped 
from the name about 1288, since which time the 
name has been spelled as at present. In this 
country, the history of the family dates from 1640, 
when there is a record of Thomas Davenport unit- 
ing with the church of 1 )orchester, Massachusetts. 
The subject of this sketch is descended in the 
lifth generation from this Thomas, his grand- 
father having been James Hart Davenport, and 
his great-grandfather (Charles Davenport. Charles 
Davenport settled in Dummerston, \"erniont, early 
in the eighteenth century, and his descendants 
are still living in the valley of the Connec- 
ticut. James Hart Davenport settled in Hinsdale 
before 1800, and his farm remained in the owner- 
ship of the family until a recent date. On the 
maternal side, Mr. Davenport is descended from 
the Taylor and Stebbins families, both of which 
were prominent in the early days of the country, 
and his ancestors, on both sides, took an active 
part in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Davenport 
attended the common schools, and for two terms 
studied at the Harris Academy, near Brattleboro, 
N'ermont. His father being engaged in the lumber 




DA\ I'.N l'( )R I , Jamks I.kRdv. l-irst Deputy -' 

Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, District of business, he was brought up to hard manual labor. 

Columbia, was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, He was extremely an.xious to enter the army when 

January 27, 1845, son of Lockhart and Mary C. the war broke out, but his youth and his father's 

(Merrill) Davenport. The history of his paternal objections stood in the way until the spring of 

line has been traced back to 1086, when the name 1864, when he w-as nineteen. He left home, and 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



1-^7 



immediately enlisted in Company I!, Fortieth Wis- 
consin Infantry. After lii.s discliarge from tlie ser- 
vice, he returned to liis native town, but removed to 
Keene in 1866, and this has ever since been his 
legal residence. He was employed from i866-"7o 
in a clerical capacity in a large store in Keene ; 
from iSyo-'Si he was travelling salesman for a 
Boston wholesale and importing house. .Vpril 7, 
1881, he was appointed clerk, class 4, in the Pen- 
sion lUireau, and held \arii>us positions in the 
Bureau until April 4. 1897, when he was appointed 
by the President, l''irst Deputy Commissioner of 
Pensions. Mr. Davenport is a member of the 
James A. Garfield Post, No. 7, (irand Army of the 
Republic, and of the Union .Soldiers' and .Sailors' 
Alliance. He has always maintained his deep 
interest in New Hampshire, and lie says, although 
he has been in many states and met man\' people, 
he can say, with all truthfulness, to him New 
Hampshire and her people are the dearest of all. 
He was a member of the Republican State ('entral 
Committee for many years, prior to April, 1881, 
and has always been an ardent supporter of his 
partw He prides himself upon the fact that he 
has not missed \oting in ICeene at any important 
election since 1866. when he attained the age of 
tw'enty-one. Mr. Davenport was married Decem- 
ber 6, 1868, to Ella A. Carpenter. Two daughters 
have been born to them: Mary Josephine, and 
Fannie Arabella Davenport, 



DAVIS, George Moses, Physician, Manchester, 
was born in Norwich, Vermont, January 50, 1864, 
son of Ira and Luc\' A. L. (Crary) Da\'is. He is 
of English descent. His grandfather lived in Nor- 
wich, Vermont, and was engaged in the horse trade, 
sending his stock to Boston. His father was a 
physician of Norwich, being born in Dracut, Massa- 
chusetts, January 25, 1801, and practicing in Nor- 
wich, Vermont, luitil his death. Doctor Davis re- 
ceived his education in the public schools in his na- 
tive town and in Manchester, whither he came at the 
age of eight. Later, he studied medicine with Doctor 
Geo. C. Hoitt, entered Dartmouth Medical School 
and was graduated in the class of '88. While in 
college, he spent a year in Tewksbury, Massachu- 
setts, Hospital. After his graduation he settled in 
Norwich for a time, taking the practice of Doctor 
S. H. Currier. Leaving Vermont he spent another 
year at the Tewk.sbury Hospital and then removed 
to Bedford, New Ham|3shire, He practiced in 
that town and in Merrimack for some years, but 



January i, 1896, he removed to Manchester. He 
served as hospital steward on the stall of lirigadier- 
General D. M. White. He is a member of the 
State Medical Society, Lafayette Lodge of Masons, 
Royal Arch ('liapter; also of the Royal Arcanum 




i;k.ori;e m. havis, 

and United Workmen. Member of stall of .Sacred 
Heart Hospital. He married I'ebruary 24. 1891, 
Mabel Lena, daughter of Reul>en and Minerwa 
Maxham Davis, of Norwich. They have two chil- 
dren : Hilda Lena and Hanild lr\ing Da\'is. 



DILLON, Mkh.vki. Aucusrus, Clerk in the 
Ihiited States Treasury Department, Washington, 
District of Columbia, was born in Middlesex vil- 
lage, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, September 29, 
1839, son of Patrick Dillon, a native of Cappocpiin, 
Ireland, and johannah Deneane, of 'I'allagh. Ire- 
land. He traces his descent from Lish and Nor- 
man stocks. In 1852 the f.imilv moxcd from 
Lowell, Massachusetts, to Wilton, New Hamp- 
siiire, where Mr. Dillon still has his legal lesi- 
dence. i\ii. hillmi attenilcil llie tonnnun schools 
in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Willi m. New Hamp- 
shire; Bryant and Stratton's ( onunercial College, 
and the National Uni\ersity of Washington. He 
studied law, and was graduated from the National 
Lhiiversity Law School, May j8, 1873, and on the 
following day was .idmitted to the Bar. lie had 



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had an early training as a youth in business in 
Cambridge and 15oston, Massachusetts, but gave 
up his employment to enter the Volunteer Army on 
April 2 2, 1 86 1, at the first call for troops. He 
served from April 22, i86i.to October 18, 1862, 
in Company C. Second New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, and from September 18, 1863, to October 
17, 1865, in the Veteran Reserve Corps, as Com- 
missary Sergeant, as a soldier of Massachusetts. 
He possesses a medal of honor voted him by Act 
of Congress for gallant and conspicuous conduct 
on four different battle fields. 'I'he battle of Wil- 
liamsburg, Virginia, May 5, 1862, was one of the 
most hotly contested battles of the war, and during 
one of the charges of the enemy, as it had been 
found impossible to withdraw one of our batteries, 
four guns fell into the hands of the enemy, as our 
lines were being pressed back. Then occurred a 
thrilling incident, which displayed the undaunted 
courage of young Dillon, and won for him the star 
which Congress awarded for conspicuous bravery. 
Seeing the pieces in the possession of the enemy, 
he sprang forward, begging his comrades to follow 
and retake the guns. They were all youths, and 
he the youngest. His Lieutenant, seeing him thus 
exposed to the enemy's fire, and apprehending that 
it would be concentrated upon the position which 
that portion of the brigade occupied, shouted to 
him the order, " Cet down 1 Vou are drawing the 
enemy's fire." Voung Dillon's reply was more 
dauntless than refined — "What in hell are we here 
for? Come on, boys, come on ! We must not let 
them take that battery." And with his arms raised 
on high, beckoning his comrades to follow, he ral- 
lied a gallant group, and rushed into the thickest 
of the fight, and the batter)- was rescued. Dillon 
was stricken in the leg by a ball, which felled him, 
but a moment before the recaptnii-, and was check- 
ing the flow of blood from the wound, while he w'as 
venting his wrath in forcible language at the cruelty 
of fate, which had wrested his musket from his 
grasp by an e.xploding shell, and shattered it into 
fragments. Having hastily stanched the flow of 
blood, he pluckily resumed his place, and con- 
tinued the fight until he had the satisfaction of 
witnessing the repulse of the charge. On the i8th 
of June, prior to the battle of Oak Grove, General 
Hooker called for volunteers to capture a redoubt 
on the right of the Williamsburg Road. Voung 
Dillon was the first to res]3ond, by stepping to the 
front. His Lieutenant ordered him to fall back, 
remarking as he did so. " We cannot spare you. 



There is going to be desperate work to-day, and 
we need you with us." Dillon replied, •■ General 
Hooker needs desperate work done, and has called 
for volunteers, and I am going." With that, he 
seized his mu.sket, and joined the forlorn hope. 
Away thev started, and were soon charging across 
an open field, in the face of a deadly fire from 
artillery and musketry, leaving many a comrade 
dead or wounded as they advanced, upon the run. 
The redoubt was reached ; the parapet gained : 
and among the first was Dillon to participate in the 
short, sharp, deadh' conflict which insured victory 
to the gallant band. They captured many pris- 
oners, and held the fort until General Hooker 



tUtU^ 




M. .\. DH.I.ON. 

could advance his lines, and take permanent pos- 
session. Then thev returned to their respective 
regiments, tu be acclaimed in deafening shouts the 
heroes of the occasion, and to take part in the 
battle that followed, known as the battle of the 
Williamsburg Road. A week after, while there 
was a lull in the front of the Second New Hamp- 
shire Regiment, young Dillon performed an act 
that exhibited his coolness, as well as his disregard 
of the peril to which he, without orders, exposed 
himself. He crawled on his hands and knees 
through the grass and among the bushes in ad- 
vance of the line into the enemy's camp, over- 
heard the details of the plans which Long.street 
had determined upon, safely returned, and commu- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



129 



nicated to General Hooker what he had oxerheard, 
and thereby enabled that General so to re-arran<je 
his force as to repulse the enemy. This battle was 
but a prelude to that deadly series of conflicts 
known as the seven clays' right, which disastrously 
terminated the Peninsula Campaign of 1S62. In 
these Dillon participated, eliciting from his supe- 
rior olflcers commendations for being at all times 
present for duty, and for the display of the same 
undaunted courage for which he had early gained 
an enviable reputation. He also won a place in 
the hearts of his fellows by timely and tender aid 
rendered to the wounded, and by the constant and 
generous acts of comradeship which ha\e made 
him deservedly popular. At the battle of Grove- 
ton, or. as it is sometimes called, the Second Rattle 
of Bull Run, August 29, 1862, Dillon again distin- 
guished himself, and was most seriously wounded. 
No description can be more graphic than that 
found in the official reports of the contending Gen- 
erals. Of the attack of (trover's Brigade, in which 
was the .Second New Hani]ishire, the Confederate 
General, Jackson, says : "The Federal Infantry in 
large force advanced to the attack of our left, occu- 
pied by the Division of (General Hill. It pressetl 
forward, in defiance of our fatal and destructive 
fire, with great determination, a portion of it cross- 
ing a deep cut in the railroad track, and penetrating 
in heavy force an interval of nearly one hundred 
and seventy-five yards, which separated the right 
of Gregg's from the left of Thomas's brigade. For 
a short time Gregg's brigade on the left was iso- 
lated from the main body of the command : but 
the Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment, then in 
reserve, with the Forty-fiftli Georgia lirigade, 
attacked the e.xultant enemy with vigor, and drove 
them back across the railroad track with great 
slaughter. The opposing force at one time deliv- 
ered their \olleys into each other at the distance of 
ten paces." (ieneral Grover in his report says, 
" After rising the hill under which my command 
lay, an open field was entered and from one edge 
of it gradually fell off in a slope to a \'alley through 
which ran a railroad embankment. Beyond this 
embankment the forest continued, and the corres- 
ponding heights beyond were held 1)\- the enenu' in 
force supported by artillery. At 3 p. m. I received 
an order to advance in line of battle over this 
ground, past the embankment, enter the woods be- 
yond, and hold it. We rapidly and lirmly pressed 
upon the embankment, and here occurred a short, 
sharp, and ol>slinate hand In hand ( nnlhi I w ith l)a\ - 



onets and clubbed muskets. Many of the enemy 
were bayonetted in their tracks, others struck down 
with the butts of pieces, and onward pressed our 
line. In a few yards nuire it met a terrible fire 
from a second line, which in its turn broke. The 
enemy's third line now bore down upon our thinned 
ranks in close ordei'. and swept back the right cen- 
ter. I tried to turn this Hank, but the breaking 
of our right and center and the weight of the ene- 
my's lines caused the necessity of falling back, first 
to the embankment and then to our first position, 
behind which we rallied to our colors." It was 
while the .Second New Hampshire was doggedly 
retreating, step by step, and attempting to form 
a new line, that the enemy in turn made a charge 
upon them. Dillnn singled (lut the color bearer of 
the Forty-ninth lleorgia and laid him in the dust, 
but he himself dropped, shot through the lungs, 
at the same moment, tile Inillet passing through 
his body and breaking three ribs. Notwithstand- 
ing such a severe injury, he finally recovered, re- 
enlisted and served two years and two months to the 
credit of Massachusetts. Since his retirement from 
the army he has been clerk in the fTnited States 
Treasury Department and has had four promotions. 
Among the positions he has held, civil, political 
and military, are, Caiilain First Company, Union 
^'eteran Corps, District of Columliia, 1S85 ; Com- 
mander George G. Meade Post, Grand Army of 
the Republic, District of Columbia. iSSi-'82-'S3 ; 
Commander of Lafayette Post. (Irand Army of the 
I-lepublic, 1897 ; Founder and (.'ommander-in-Chief 
Union Veterans Union, iSS6-'87; Founder and 
Commander of Medal of Honor Legion, 1890- '91- 
■93. and member of Harmony Lodge, Free and Ac- 
cepted Masons from 1864 to present time, and Col- 
umliia Royal Arch Chapter. He was a pioneer in 
the organizing of the Giand Army of the Repub- 
lic. Woman's Relief Cor|_is, Sons of N'eterans, the 
National Reunion Monument Association,, formed 
to erect a monument to the rank and file of sol- 
diers, sailors and marines, who ser\ eti fiom 1861 to 
1865 ; and was a charter member of the Washing- 
ton Aid Association of the ex-Confederates Sol- 
diers' Home at Richmond. \ irgini.i. He has trav- 
eled all over the United States from one end of the 
country to the other, and has made extensixe tours 
in Ireland, England, Wales, France, Ilalw Switzer- 
land, Germany, Holland, Helgium. but as he him- 
self declares, he is more sure than e\ii tli.il " there 
is no place like home." Mr. Dillon in.irried. July 
I, 1866, at Camhritlge, Massachusetts, Theresa 



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MEN OF PROCURESS. 



Quinn of that city. They have had five children : 
Mabel Thaw, who died in infancy ; Bessie Quinn 
(now Sturtevant) ; Rose Collier, Agnes Burchard, 
and iMarie Augusta Dillon (now Rockwell). 



1>(|\1,I<'„ JKRKMi.Mi JosKi'U, Lawyer, Nashua, 
was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, January 
23, 1861, son of John and Julia (O'Neil) Doyle. 
He comes of the good red-blooded County Kerry 
stock, which docs not avoid its share of fighting; a 
brother of Mr. Doyle was killed in the Civil \\'ar, 
and an uncle on his father's side served in the Civil 
War. As a boy he attended the schools of Milford 
and .\niherst, New Hampsliirc. Eater on, he studied 




J. I. IH)VLli. 

law, reading in the office of C.eorge B. French for 
three years, and taking a special course of a year 
in Boston University Eaw .School. He was admitted 
to the liar August 2<S, iiS84, and the next day opened 
an office in Nashua, where he has since practiced 
his profession. He has held every office in the gift 
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of New Hamp- 
shire, being Division President for two years, Treas- 
urer for two years, State President for four, and a 
Delegate to the National Convention of the order, 
in Omaha. He was the First Chief Ranger of 
Court Indian Head, of Nashua, Foresters of Amer- 
ica, and held the office two years ; was Second 
Grand Chief I'langer of the state, and also Grand 



Chief Ranger of the state ; attended the National 
Conventions at Brooklyn and Cleveland, and is now 
Sub State Deputy, and also a Supreme Trustee of 
the Foresters of America. He attended the Denver 
convention in August, 1897, as a member of the 
Supreme Court of Foresters. He was the First 
Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus, of 
Nashua. Mr. Doyle has been very active in poli- 
tics. He has attended every state Democratic con- 
vention since he became a voter, and was a delegate 
to the National convention of 1896, at Chicago, and 
the only New Hampshire delegate who voted 
for William J. Bryan, and supported the Chicago 
platform. I''or years he has been a member of the 
State, County, and City Democratic Committees. 
He has served as Alderman, Representative in the 
Legislature, and City Solicitor, He married Luella 
J. Lucier. They have five children: Lillian E., 
Paul J.. Robert J., Mary J., and Jeremiah J. Doyle, 



EASTMAN, John Robie, Professor of Mathe- 
matics, United States Navy, and Astronomer in the 
Naval Observatory. Washington, District of Colum- 
bia, was born in Andover, New Hampshire, July 
29, 1836, son of Royal E. and Sophronia (Mayo) 
Eastman. ( >n the paternal side he is descended in 
the eighth generation from Roger Eastman, who 
landed in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1638. Jeremiah 
Eastman, great-grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, who was born in 1732, and who died in 
1802. was in the Colonial Congress at Hxeter, from 
Deerfield, Northwood, and Nottingham, all but one 
year during the Revolution, and was in the tirst 
New flampshire Constitutional Convention. Mr. 
Eastman's line of descent is traced : Roger, 161 1- 
1694; John, 1640-1720; Zachariah, born 1679; 
Jeremiah, born 1704; Jeremiah, 1732-1802; Eph- 
raim, 1768-1853, and Royal F. Eastman, 1805- 
1868. On the maternal side Mr. Eastman is de- 
scended in the ninth generation from John Mayo, 
who died in 1676, and who was the first Pastor of 
the North Church, in Boston. Thomas Mayo, 
great-great-grandfather of Mr. Eastman, was a pri- 
vateersman in Revolutionary days, and died from 
the eft'ects of confinement in a prison ship in New 
York harbor. Mr. Eastman attended the common 
schools, and the Academy at Andover, and the 
Academy at New London. He passed through the 
last two years of the Chandler Scientific School 
course at Dartmouth College, and was graduated in 
1862. His early training for active life was upon 



MEN OF I'ROC.RESS. 



the farm, hut he taught schnol iiKire or less fr<iin 
1853 to 1S62. inchisive. He passed the examina- 
tion, and was appointed Assistant in the United 
States Naval ( )bser\atorv in Washington, on Novem- 
ber 7, iSfi:;. ( >n the recommendation of the Super- 
intendent and of the Assistant Astronomer of the 
Naval ( )liser\atorv. he was ap|3nintetl Professor of 
Mathematics, United States Navy, with the rank of 
Lientenant-t'onimander, on February 17, 1865, and 
has been stationed at the ( )bservatory e\er since 
that date, doing astronomical work, except when 
sent away on special scientific expeditions. Since 
his ajjpointment as Professor in the Navy, he has 
been promoted to the rank of Coinmander and Cap- 




I. k. KASIMAN. 

tain. Professor Eastman ser\ed in the trenches 
about Washington at the time of (leneral Early's 
raid, July 12 and 13, 1864. He was Nice-President 
of the American Association ff)r the Advancement 
of Science, in 1887 and 1892. In the latter year 
he was President of the Cosmos Club of Washing- 
ton, District of Columbia; and in 1889. he was 
President of the Philosophical Society, of that city. 
In 1898, he was elected the First President of the 
Washington Academy of Sciences. In politics he 
is a tariff for revenue, gold standard, honest money 
Democrat, l^rofessor I'',astman married, December 
25, 1866, Mary J. Ambrose, of Boscawen, New 
Hampshire. 



EMERY, Maithkw Caui.i', the last Mayor of 
\\'ashington. District Columbia, was born in Pem- 
broke, New Hampshire, September 28, 1818, son of 
Jacob and Jane (Cault) Emery. He was one of six 
brothers, all of whom were born and spent their 
youth on the farm which had been their grand- 
father's, and upon which their father, Jacob Emery, 
was born and spent his life, and where he died in 
1868 at the age of ninetv-two. The pioneers of 
the family in this country were two lirothers, John 
and Anthony Emery, who emigrated with their fam- 
ilies from Romsey, Hants, England, landing i]i I!o.s- 
ton, April 3, 1635, and settling in ■■ • )ukl Newber- 
rie " in the Massachusetts colony. It is on record, 
twenty \ears later, that John, the great-great-great- 
great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was 
fined four pounds, with costs and fees, for obeying 
the dictates of a kind heart, and a conscience 
enlightened beytind his day and generation. His 
offense against the laws of the colony appears to 
have been the hospitable entertainment of two 
(Quakers, conduct, the enormity of which was 
increased by his using argument as to the lawful- 
ness of his course. Although the Selectmen of his 
town and fifty citizens, a considerable nimiber in 
those days of sparse population, signed a petition to 
have his fine remitted, it was not done. Joseph 
Emery, grandfather of Matthew Cault Emery, 
served for six years in the War of the Revolution, 
fir.st as Lieutenant and afterwards as Captain in 
the Thirteenth Regiment of the New Hampshire 
Militia. Matthew ( lault, grandfather in the mater- 
nal line. ser\'etl four \ears in the patriot army, hav- 
ing enlisted July 11. i77,S- •!' the age of nineteen. 
His regiment of rangers, raised b\- the colony of 
New Hampshire, served first in Colonel Montgom- 
ery's division of the Cc.mtinental Arm\'. Matthew 
(jault subsequentl)' became a member of Captain 
McConnell's company with which he maiched to 
Bennington and Stillwater. Matthew Cault Emery 
attended the best schools and academies of his 
native town, and his father desired to have his edu- 
cation completed at Dartmouth College. However, 
to the disappointment of the father, the son decided 
to forego a college training and begin business life 
at once; and in 1837, when he was eighteen years 
old, he left his home on tin- farm and went to Balti- 
more, where an elder brother was then living. It 
was in that city that Mi'. Emery settled upon his 
future business, that of a builder and art liitcct. As 
was customary in those daj's of thorough .uul ener- 
getic preparation for life's work, he began with the 



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MEN OF PR()(;RESS. 



necessary manual traininjj and patiently served the 
time required to make himself a skilled stonecutter. 
He received his tirst government contract in 1840, 
going with a force of men to the quarry where he 
directed the cutting of the stone for the postoffice 
department l)uilding in \\'asliington. District of 
Columbia. lie cstalilished his permanent resi- 
dence in lluit cit) in 1.S4J. His residence there 
having debarred him from paiticipaling in the gen- 
eral elections of the country, he has voted for but 
one presidential candidate, William Henry Harri- 
son, whom he saw inaugurated, but he has had a 
personal acquaintance with all the I'residents except 
the five preceding William Henrv Harrison. Mr. 




M. G. EMERY. 

Emery's work as a contractor and architect on pub- 
lic buildings in Washington brought to him applica- 
tion for his services from all parts of the countr_\-. 
He did much of the stone work of the Capitol, and 
cut and laid the cornerstone for its extension in 185 i 
when Daniel Webster delivered the oration. He 
also cut and squared, free of expense, and on July 
4, 1848, himself laid the cornerstone of the Wash- 
ington monument, for which he received the thanks 
of the l)Oard of Directors in a series of resolutions, 
having among its signers, John Quincy Adams, 
Heniy t'lay, and Robert C. Winthrop. \A'hen the 
capstone of the monument was set in place, in 1884, 
marking the completion of the great work, Mr. 



Emery w-as one of the invited guests. IJefore the 
breaking out of the war, Mr. Emery had organized 
a militia company of which he was made ('a])tain. 
His commission, signed by President Lincoln and 
Simon Cameron, then Secretary of \\':\r, bears date 
of May 16, 1861. His company did patrol service 
for the protection of the government buildings until 
the arrival of the volunteer troops. During the 
war. Mr. Enierv was 'J'reasurer of the New Hamp- 
shire Soldiers' Aid Association, and took charge of 
the sick and disabled soldiers from his native .state, 
in the discharge of these duties having occasion to 
visit Ciettysburg and other battlefields. Early in 
the war he gave up his home at ]5rightwoo(l. a 
northern suburb of Washington, for the use of the 
army. lieing the highest point of land in that part 
of the countrv, it was made a signal station, and 
many were the messages transmitted between it and 
the dome of the Capitol. As he was known to take 
a deep interest in the improvement of the city, the 
services of Mr. Emery were much sought in various 
offices under the local government. He was for 
several years a member of the Board of Aldermen. 
In 1870, after a memorable struggle, he was elected 
Mavor as a citizens' candidate by a majority of 
three thousand one hundred and ninety-four, every 
ward giving him a plurality of votes. He was the 
last Mayor of Washington, the territorial form of 
government, which had long been under consid- 
eration, being finally adopted by congressional 
enactment before his term of office expired. In liis 
inaugural address as Mayor, Mr. Emery said. " I 
am a Republican, but my Republicanism is based 
on principle, and is not mere partisanship. I claim 
no right which I am not willing to accord to all 
Americans without regard to race or religion." It 
is a matter of record that he scrupulously redeemed 
the promises of his inaugural address, and fulfilled 
all the duties of his office with great credit and 
abilitv. In 1872, at the end of thirty years' labor 
in the business of builder, contractor, and archi- 
tect, Mr. i'anery, in accordance with a resolution 
formed at the time of entering upon that business, 
disposed of his interest to his brother, .Samuel 
Emery, and has since devoted himself to other 
enterprises. Mr. Emery has alwavs been known 
for his active personal interest and luulertakings of 
a religious and charitable nature. He was one of 
seven persons who organized the Metropolitan 
Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church of Wash- 
ington, and for nearly thiity years has been Presi- 
dent of its Board of Trustees, a body of which 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



■33 



General Grant was a member. He was a Regent 
of the Smithsonian Institution, and was for a long- 
period Trustee of Dickinson College at Carlisle, 
Pennsyhania. For many years he has been a 
Regent and Vice-Chancellor of the National flni- 
versity. He is also a Regent, one of the incorpo- 
rators and Treasurer of the American University. 
For about twenty years he was Treasurer of the 
Associated Charities of the District of Columbia. 
He aided in 1854 in procuring the charter of the 
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and was made its 
Treasurer, and has served continuously since that 
time as a Director and is now its President. He- 
was for some time President of the Franklin Insur- 
ance Company and of the National Capital Life 
Insurance Company; a Director of the Metropoli- 
tan Insurance Company, and first Treasurer of the 
Metropolitan Street Railway Company. He aided 
in organizing the Washington Market House Com- 
pany, of which he has been President for many 
years. He was long a Director of the ITnited 
States Electric Lighting Company of Washington, 
serving for part of the time as Vice-President. At 
an early date he was a Director of the Patriotic 
Rank, and afterwards, in connection with Mr. Fitz- 
hugh Coyle, established the Bank of the Republic, of 
which he was a Director for eight years, for one year 
being the acting President. He was elected Presi- 
dent of the Second National Bank in 1877, and has 
held the position ever since. He was one of the 
organizers and for twenty years a Director of the 
National Savings Bank, and he is now a Director in 
the National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Com- 
pany, its succes.sor. He is also a Director of the 
American Security and Trust Company and one of 
its Executive Committee. The home of the Emery 
family in Washington is one of a row of three 
hou.ses built in i860 by Stephen A. Douglas, John 
C. Breckinridge, and Senator Rice. The house was 
not entirely finished when the war broke out and 
was used by the government for hospital purposes. 
After the close of the war the house was completed, 
and was soon after Ijouglit and presented to Gen- 
eral Grant by his friend.s. Here he lived until he 
went to the White House as President. The house 
was afterwards bought and presented to (ieneral 
Sherman. If was then ])inchase<l by Mr. Kmery 
and has since been his home. 



son of Horace .\I. and .Maria ( Katehekler) Knnnons. 
< )n the paternal side he comes of a family which 
has been identified with the history and develop- 
ment (if liristol for over one hundred and fift)- 
years, while the Batchelders have been residents of 
Reading, Massachusetts, for two hundred and fifty 
years. Mr. Emmons attended the public schools of 
Bristol, completing his course of study in the New 
Hampton Institute at the age of eighteen years, 
lor two years he was employed in a provision store 
ni Bristol, removing from that town to Concord. 
Subsequently he established himself in business in 
rilton. In 1871. he returned to Concord, where he 
has since l.ieen engaged in the meat and provision 




EMMONS, Gardner Batchklher, State Senator 
and a successful business man of Concord, was 
born in Bristol, New Hampshire, February 18, 1847, 



C. H. EMMt)NS. 

business. He is half owner of the Concord Coal 
Company; a Director in the Concord Street Rail- 
way Company ; a Trustee in the I'nion (hiaranty 
Savings Piank, and a Director antl leading spirit in 
tile Concord Cattle Conipan)'. the headquarters of 
which are at Miles City, Custer county, Montana. 
He has served four years on the Board of .Aldermen 
in Concord, and in i88() he was a member of the 
House of Representatixes in the Legislatiue. He 
was nominated in 1896, for State Senator b\ .udam- 
ation, and was elected by a larger majorit)' than h.ul 
been received by any of his predecessors. Mr. 
Emmons is a xoter in Ward Si.x, in Concord. In 
politics he is a Repubhcm. Foi- a quarter of a 



MEN OF rKOGRKSS. 



century he has been a member of the First Baptist 
Society of t'oncord, and for seven years acted as 
Trustee and Treasurer. He has long been con- 
nected with White Mountain I-odge, Independent 
Order nt < >d(i l-'ellows. He is a member of the 
W'onolani et Club, ihe leading social organization of 
Concord. Mr. Flnunons was married. November 
26, 1868, to Sara jane I'landers, of Concord. 
They have four children, ihiee of whom are living: 
Harry ('■.. a dry-goods merchant in (Concord; Oscar 
F., al.so residing in that city, and Harriet D. 
Kmmons. 



ITsl\l-iF\, Im'.knk/f.r, Retired Merchant, Man- 
ilu'ster, was born in (loffstown, New Hampshire, 
February 12, 1S17. son of Kbenezer and Mary 
(Faton) l-'errin. His father, who was born in 
GotTstown, January 24, 1780, was a son of Philip 
Ferren, who was the First Lieutenant of the F'nst 
Company of the Ninth Regiment of New Hamp- 
shire militia, served in the Revolution, and passed 
the famous winter at Valley ?"orge. In the mater- 
nal line, Mr. F^erren traces his descent from the 




EHENKZKU FKKRKN. 

John Eaton family of Haverhill. Massachusetts, 
John Eaton being a descendant of Francis Eaton, 
who came over in the " Mayflower " in 1620. His 
grandfather on his mother's side, Samuel Eaton, 
was a Revolutionary soldier and fought at the 



battle of Bennington under General Stark. Mr. 
Ferren attended the common schools at Goffstown 
and was graduated on the road, selling goods and 
in trade. He began his business career May 27, 
1837, traveling until August, 1845, ^^hen he opened 
a dry-goods and carpet store in Manchester, and 
there remained in business until 1865, when he 
retired. Between 1S48 and 185 i he bought consid- 
erable real estate, which appreciated handsomely. 
He has never held any political office, and has 
always refused to ally himself in any way with 
machine politics. He is a man of very strong con- 
\ ictions and is quoted as saying, " I have a God 
that is worth more to me than all the money that 
is made." Mr. Ferren has given much thought 
and study to the history of the Crucifi.xion, and is 
convinced that he has established beyond doubt 
the exact location of the points of greatest interest 
to the Christian world in and near Jerusalem. He 
has always been a temperance man, and in his 
politics is a Prohibitionist. He was a delegate to 
the Convention of that party in Indianapolis in 
1888 and to the Tenth National 'I'eniperance Con- 
\ention at .Saratoga Springs in July, 1S91. He 
belonged to the Sons of Temperance as far back 
as 1847. He is a member of the First Congrega- 
tional church of Manchester, and was Treasurer of 
the Sunday-school for ten years, from 1S83 till 
1893, when he resigned. He married August 7, 
1849, Adelaide E. Badger. 



FFR(UTS()N, John, Physician, Manchester, was 
born in Ireland, in 1829. son of l)a\id and Cath- 
erine Ferguson. He received his English and 
classical education from the Order of Jesuits, of 
which his uncle, Charles Ferguson, was President. 
After completing his medical and surgical studies 
in Ireland, he obtained a position as Surgeon on 
an .\tlantic mail steamer. Those in the old coun- 
try had then but a crude idea of the United States 
and Doctor F'erguson's first visit to New York sur- 
prised and pleased him greatly. \'isiting one of 
the medical colleges, he went to the dissecting 
room, always a favorite place with him, and intro- 
duced himself to the students, then at work upon a 
cada\er. N'enturing some criticisms and sugges- 
tions u]M)n their work, which they took with perfect 
good nature, he was overheard by the Demonstra- 
tor, who questioned him with regard to himself, 
and offered him the position of Assistant Demon- 
strator should he decide to settle in the States. 
His contract with the steamer e.xpiring soon after, 



MEN OF PROflRESS. 



135 



Doctor Ferguson took this position and afterwards received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dart- 
became Post-Mortem Examiner for the t'oroners of moutii College in 1S79. Doctor Gallinger began 
New York. He remained in this capacity until the the practice of medicine and surgery in Keene, 



Civil War began, when he became Surgeon of a 
New \'ork regiment and went to the front. Later 




where he remained from ()ct()ber, 1861, until April, 
1862, when he removed to Concord. There he 
was engaged in the practice nf his profession until 
1S85, when he was elected to Congress. Since he 
entered the public ser\ ice, he has gradually dis- 
continued his iJiaUicc. lie was a member of the 
New Hampshire Legislature in 1872, 1873, and 
1S91; of the ('(institutional Convention in 1876; 
of the State Senate in 1 878-'7(j-'8o, being Presi- 
dent of that body for the last two \ears. He was 
Surgeon-Ceneral of New Hampshire, with the rank 
of Brigadier-General, in 1871)- 80. From 1882 to 
1890 he was Chairman of the Republican State 
Committee, and was Chairman of the delegation to 
the Republican Nation.il ('(invention in 1888. He 
was a member of the i''ort_\-nintii and Fiftieth Con- 
gresses, and was elected to the Ibiited States 
Senate in 1891, and re-elected in i8()7. He is at 
present Chairman of the Senate Committee on 
Pensions, and is also a ]irominent member of the 



JOHN Ft;R(;LIS(IN. 

he served in the same capacit}' in the Tenth New 
Hampshire Regiment. His health partially failing 
in a year or more, he resigned and removing to 
Manchester, he commenced the practice of his pro- 
fession in that city and has since remained there. 
Dr. Ferguson was married in 1861 to Elenora 
Hughes of New York city. 



GALLINGER, J.-icoB H., Ibiited States Sena- 
tor, Concord, was bom in Cornwall, Ontario, 
March 28, 1837, son of Jacob and Catherine 
(Cook) (jallinger. On the paternal side he is of 
Dutch descent, his grandfather having emigrated 
from Ibilland, first to the [Inited .States, and then 
to Canada. His mother was of American stock. 
He was educated in the common schools and 
academies, and studied with prixate tutors. He 
learned the printing trade in early life, and for a 

time published a newspaper. He has never lost Committees on Commerce. District of Columbia, 
his interest in journalism, and has contributed Public Health and National (hiarautine. In Wash- 
more or less to the newspapers all through his life. ington, as he w.is in ('on((jr(l. Senator C.allin- 
In 1855 he began the study of medicine in Cin- ger is always a busy man. lie is a Mason, an 
cinnati, I )hio, and was graduated in 1858. He ( )dd Fellow , and a memlier ol the ( )r(ler of Knights 




J. II. (;.\i.ijnc;f.r. 



■36 



1\TF.N OF TROGRKSS. 



of Honor, of the (lolden Cross, and other fraternal 
orders ; and he is also a member of various .social 
clubs. In pdlitics he has always been a stalwart 
Rei)ubli( an. He was married August 13, i860, to 
Mary .\nna liailey of Salisbury, New Hampshire. 
They ha\e had si.\ children : .Mice iM.. Harry 1!., 
Katharine ('., Annie 1!., Willi. mi II.. and Ralph K. 
("lallinger, of whom .Xliie. Ilan\. and .\nnie are 
dead. William II. and R.dpli I''., have adopted the 
profession of medicine, and Katharine C, is the 
wife of Harry H. Norton, Es(.\.. of North Cambridge, 
Massachusetts. 

GRI'd'dd'A , Akihur I'liii.lP, Assistant Commis- 
sioner of Patents, Washington, District of Colum- 
bia, was born in Methiien. Massachusetts, son of 
the Reverend Edward H. and Louisa M. (Ware) 
Greeley. He comes of substantial English stock, 
bein^ a tlescendant <>i .\ndiew Greeley, who came 




..\. I'. UkKia.KV. 

to this country about 1630. and who was one of 
the original proprietors of Salisbury, Massachu- 
setts, where the family li\ed until 1735, when Jona- 
than, great-grandson of .Xmhew, moved to East 
Kingston. .Since that lime, the family has resided 
in New Hampshire. Philip, son of Jonathan, born 
in l''.ast Kingston in 1750, married Dolly 'I'ilton in 
1774, and moved to llopkinton, where he became 
a prominent citizen. He was Ensign in the Conti- 



nental ,\rmy. Colonel of Militia and Justice of the 
Peace. His son Edward moved to Claremont in 
1822. The Reverend Edward H. (ireeley, father 
of the subject of this sketch, was long connected 
with the New Hampshire Missionary Society, and 
well known throughout the state. He died in Con- 
tord in 1S90. Mr. (Jreeley was graduated from 
the Concord High School in the class of 1876, and 
from Dartmouth College, with the degree of A. H., 
in the class of 1SS3. He took his degree of LL. II 
from the Columbian University in 1886, and the 
degree of I.E. M. in 1887. In the latter year, he 
was admitted to the Bar in the District of t'olum- 
bia. He was appointed Assistant Examiner in the 
Patent Office in 1884; Principal Examiner in 1891; 
Examiner-in-Chief in 1895, and Assistant Conunis- 
sioner in 1897, His appointment as Examiner-in- 
Chief was made by President Cleveland without 
solicitation, and although in his politics he was 
opposed to the administration, he was confirmed by 
the Senate without opposition. He was appointed 
Assistant Commissioner of Patents in 1897 at the 
recjuest of Commissioner Butterworth, by President 
McKinle)-, and was again confirmed by the Senate 
without opposition. On the death of Mr. Butter- 
worth in January, 1898, Mr. Greeley was strongly 
urged for Commissioner, receiving the support of 
the most prominent Republican Senators. Mr. 
Greeley's appointment to the Patent Office was a 
result of high standing in the first examination held 
under the present Civil Service Law, and his pro- 
motion has been solely upon merit. As Assistant 
Examiner, he served in the division of metal work- 
ing B and electricity B, in the latter division having 
charge of the class of electric railways. When he 
was appointed Principal Examiner, he was assigned 
to a newly formed division comprising packing and 
storing vessels, advertising, etc. He was trans- 
ferred in 1894 to the division of instruments of 
precision, and while in charge of this division for a 
nunil)er of months was Examiner of Trade Marks. 
From 189 1 -"93 he was a member of the committee 
in charge of preparation, arrangement, and instal- 
lation of the exhibit of the Patent Office at the 
World's Fair, in Chicago, this task involving an 
extended consideration of the development of 
nearly every important art represented in the 
Patent Office. He was also a member of the Com- 
mittee in charge of the preparation and installation 
of the Patent Office exhibit at .\tlanta. During the 
summer of 1897 lie conducted an investigation into 
abuses of Patent Office practice in a masterly and 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



137 



effecti\'e \va\', displaying jiuliti.il aliility of a iiigh 
order. Mr. Greeley is a niembcr of the I'si L'psi- 
lon College Fraternity; of the 11. 1!. I'reiKh Lodge, 
No. 15. Free and Accepted Masons ; of Lafayette 
Chapter. No. 5, Royal Arch, and Cohnnhia Com- 
mander)', No. 2, Knights 'I'emplar, l)istrict nf 
Cohmiliia. In politics he has always been a 
Republican. He was married November 16, iSqj, 
to Helene H. AL Herzog. 'I'he_\- ha\e two chil- 
dren : Arthur Edward, born September 23, iSr)4_, 
anfl riiilip Herzog (ireeley, born l)eceml)er 29, 



GROGAN, Frank Willi.s, Naval Architect, 
Washington, District of Columbia, was born May 
21, 18^7, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, son of 
]ohn 1. and .Sarah A. (Shapleigh) (irogan. He 
attended the public schools of Portsmouth, and 
was afterwards instructed by private tutnrs. At 
the age of si.xteen, he began to learn ship Inhlding, 
and served, until he was twenty-one, as regular 
Government apprentice in the Kittery Nav)' \'artl, 
during which time he passed through various 
stages, such as handling and use of tools in ship 
construction, launching and docking vessels, the 
making of ships' models, laying down of vessels on 
the mould loft floor, designing and calculations. 
When he was twenty-one, he was appointed Naval 
Draughtsman in the Kittery Navy Yard, hi 1881 
he was ordered to report to the Committee of Naval 
Construction, having charge of the new vessels of 
the na\y, in connection with the Advisory Jkiard, 
when he was given charge of the design and calcu- 
lations for a type of wooden gun-boat for Chinese 
waters. In March, 1883, he was ordered by the 
Secretary of the Navy to report to the Chief Con- 
structor for temporary duty in the bureau of Con- 
struction and Repair in the Navy Department at 
Washington, his labors being directed to the design 
of the hrst of the well-known While .Scpiadron. 
When the contracts of these vessels had been 
awarded, he received orders to return to the Kit- 
tery Navy Yard, to prepare for permanent duty at 
the New York Navy Yard, where he remained two 
years, then being called to the Navy Department in 
December. iS.S:;. In the course of his connection 
with the liureau of Construction and Repair, he was 
intrusted with the most intricate work of that bureau, 
and upon legislation for the first liattle-ships being 
secured, the Chief Constructor placed him in charge 
of the designing, calculating, and jireparation of the 
plans ofthe(iiast line b.itth'-ships Massachusetts, 



Indiana, and (hegnn. under the direction of the 
Bureau. ,Mr. Grngan resigned from this positi(jn 
in April, 189 1, and. with the appro\al and concur- 
rence of the late Connnodore Theodore D. Wilson, 
United States Navv, Chief Constructor and Chief 
nf the liureau of C()nstru( tion and Repair, and his 
successor, ('omnnnlnre Philip Hichborn, and on 
the recomnienclatidn (if the late Rear Admiral 
Richard W. .Meade, United States Navy, he was 
api^ointed as Assistant nf the llnard of Manage- 




FRANK w. (;rui;an. 

ment of the United States Government E.xhibits at 
the World's Columbian E.xposition, and ordered to 
report for duty as Naval Architect and ( 'hief Tech- 
nical Assistant to the representative of the Navy 
Department (Admiral Meade) on the Hoard, serv- 
ing until its terminatinn. in 1894. .\m(ing his other 
duties was the designing of the full-sized model 
battleship, Illinois, the (< inception of Admiral 
Meade, and famous as the " brick ship," as an 
exhiliit for the Navy Department at the World's 
Fair. In the smnmer of 1X91, Mr. Grogan was 
ordered to Chicago, personallv, to supervise the 
construction of the Illinois, and also was placed in 
charge of the exhibits of ihe ISmeau of Construc- 
tion and Repair, ,inil liureau of N'ards ,ind Docks 
of the Navy I )ep.uluunt. Al llie deflication of 
the World's Fair, in (»cto]i(i-, iS(|j, hi' was pre- 
sented bv the Dirt'ctor\' \\ illi a niedal, as one of 



',^,8 



mf:n of progrkss. 



the designers of the Kxposition. He also designed 
and superintended the Iniilding of the structure for 
the exhibit of the International Navigation Com- 
pany in the Transijortation lUiilding, consisting of 
the amidships portion (full size) of the trans-Atlan- 
tic liners, St. Louis and St. Paul, by which were 
shown the passenger accommodations. He also 
designed the buildings for the Naval Observatory 
exhibit, and built by contract the sixteen and 
twelve-inch cement guns for the Pennsylvania rail- 
road to complete tlie exhibit for showing their 
method of transporting hcuy ordnance across the 
continent. Mr. Cirogau was a member of the Gen- 
eral Committee, World's Congress Auxiliary on 
Kngineering Congresses of the World's Exposition 
of 1S93, of which K. L. Corthell was chairman, and 
was a member of the Advisory Council of the Divi- 
sion of Marine and Naval Engineering and Naval 
Architecture, of which Commodore George \V. 
.Melville, Engineer-in-Chief, I'nited States Navy, 
was Chairman, whicli was held under the direction 
of the World's Congress Auxiliary ; he was also an 
honorary member of the Illinois Naval Reserve 
Association. Mr. (Jrogan after the termination of 
his work at the World's Fair, was again employed 
by the Navy Department at Washington upon de- 
signs for vessels for the Navy, and in connection 
with this duty is acting in advisory manner to the 
Hydrographic Inspector's office in the Coast and 
(ieodetic Survey, his duties pertaining to the de- 
sign and construction of the Coast Survey vessels. 
He is now detailed to F.lizabeth, New Jersey, to 
superintend the construction of a steel coast survey 
steamer for service in Alaska and the AUeutian 
Islands. Mr. Grogan has been an active Odd Fel- 
low. At the age of twenty-two he was made a 
Noble Grand of Osgood Lodge, No. 48, Independ- 
ent Order of Odd F'ellows, and the following year 
was made a Right Worthy Grand of New Hamp- 
shire, and with one exception (in ("alifornia) was 
the youngest member of any Grand Lodge in the 
counti"y. In the same year he was chosen Dictator 
of Governor Goodwin Lodge, No. 1,661, Knights 
of Honor. He was a member of the Portsmouth 
City Council in i8<S2, and was re-elected in the fol- 
lowing year. Mr. (jrogan married Helen Thurs- 
ton Joy of Portsmouth, and has four children : 
Harley Hichborn, Fred Potter, Marian Willis, and 
F.arl Sullivan Grogan. 



Rochester, Strafford county. New Hampshire, re- 
sides in the house in which he was born, August 
23, 18 13, and is the son of Joseph and Charity 
(Dame) Hanson. His father was born in Dover, 
New Hampshire, in 1764, son of Humphrey Han- 
son. He went wlien a young man to Rochester, 
and engaged in the grocery business, in which he 
continued until a few years before his death in 
1832. His wife, tlie mother of the subject of this 
sketch, was born in Rochester, September i, 1775, 
and died February 3, 1833. They had ten chil- 
dren, of whom only two sons are now living: Do- 
minicus and Asa P. Hanson, now a resident of 
Newton, Iowa. Joseph Hanson was a staunch 




HANSON, DoMiNlcus, a Wealthy Land Owner 
and one of the oldest and best known citizens of 



liOMl.NUrs H.\NSON. 

Whig, but though often urged to accept public 
office he invariably declined. Dominicus was edu- 
cated in the Rochester common schools and -Acad- 
emy. Parsontield Seminary of Maine, and in the 
Hopkinton and Pembroke Academies. In 1S30, 
when he was .seventeen years old, he became an 
apprentice of his brother-in-law. Doctor Smith, who 
conducted a drug store, and in this employ he 
remained two years, at the end of the time buying 
out Doctor Smith, and afterwards managing the 
business with the exception of a few years when he 
was in school, until the fire of December, 1880, in 
in which his store was burned. He subsequently 
erected the line building on the same site, now 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



'.i9 



occupied liy R. DfWitt llLirnham, and lie did not 
personally take up the business, since then practi- 
cally living in retirement. His residence was built 
over one hundred vears ago, the erection of which 
was celebrated in the good old way of those days 
in which the products of the West Indies and of 
France were much in evidence at the time of lay- 
ing the ridge pole, after which verses composed 
for the occasion were read and the frame named 
and christened the ■■(leneral Washington." a cele- 
bration in which all became most gloriously inter- 
ested. The house then boasted of a fine balustrade 
around the roof, which has since been removed. 
When the railroads were liuilt through Rociiester. 
he opened the thoroughfare known as Hanson 
street through his garden and has ahvays main- 
tained it at his own expense, spending many thou- 
sands of dollars to keep it in proper condition. 
Me also owns \aluable real estate in and around 
Central Square. Mr. Hanson married, September 
19, 1839, Betsey S. Chase, daughter of Simon 
Chase of Milton, who conducted a mercantile busi- 
ness in Rochester. Two sons were born to them : 
Charles A. C, born August 18, 1844, and George 
Washington Hanson, Ijorn July d, 1S51, and died 
January 6, 1856. The elder son has always kept a 
residence in Rochester, although for several years 
he has been in business in New York city, first in a 
drug store and later establishing a lithographic 
plant. He has now severed his business connec- 
tions there, and spends the greater part of his time 
in Rochester. It is to this son that the credit is 
due for the establishment of the Old Cemetery 
Conservation h'und — Perpetua — for the perpetual 
care and improvement of the old cemetery. He 
bore the original expense of over three hundred 
dolhirs from his own pocket, and raised a fund of 
about five thousand dollars, which he turned over 
to the town for the purpose specified. While 
engaged in making tinal arrangements for the com- 
pletion of this work, he w^as severely injured by an 
elevator and crippled for life. Doniinicus Hanson 
was an earnest supporter of General Jackson for 
President at the time of his candidacy for the sec- 
ond term, though he was not old enough to vote. 
His first ballot was cast for Martin \'an liuren, and 
he has voted at every election since that time. 
15efore attaining his majority he was appointed 
Postmaster by General |ackson, and lie continued 
to hold the office under the administrations of \an 
Huren and Harrison. He was a Hirector of the 
Norway Plains Savings Bank for a number of 



years. In religious views Mr. Hanson is a Liberal. 
Although specially interested in the Lhiiversalist 
faith, he is kindly disposed to all, believing in the 
Fatherhood of God. and the lirotherhood of Man, 
and a higher and better life for all. No man is 
more highly esteemed and uni\ersally respected by 
his man\' friends. 



H.\SK l'',I,L, Peari, Tknnkv. Physician, San- 
l)ornville. was liorn in I )eering, Maine, March 10, 
1S6S, son of \^'illianl Henry antl Ellen Maria 
(Cary) Haskell. He retei\ed his early education at 
the Newton\ille, Massachusetts, (jrannnar .School, 
and was giaduated at Phillips Acadeni}-, Ando- 




P. T. II.ASKKI.T,. 

\er. Massachusetts, in iSSS. .After t,d<ing a short 
couise in the Sheffield School, at \'ale, he attendcil 
the Portland Sihool of Medical Instruction and the 
Medical School of Maine at lirunswick, Maine, 
graduating in i.Sij.v Later he totik a course at the 
New \(>vk Post C.iadu.ite Si hool. He was Chair- 
man of the Wakefield, New Hampshire, Board of 
Health, and a member of the School Board. He 
was a member of the Theta Helta ('hi Praternit}' 
at Yale. Doctor Haskell married, ( )ctober 2.S, 
i,S(/), Marietta A. ISIake of Wakeheld, New Hamp- 
shire. 



ll.\RlxlM.\N. A\A'HA H,\VEN. Physiii.ui, Laco- 
nia, was boiii in .Mbany, New I lanipsliire, ()i tuber 



140 



MEN OF PROf-.RKSS. 



14, 1857. son of Nathaniel G. and Rlioda H. was High Priest in 1897-98 ; of Pythagorian Coun- 
(Allard) Harrinian. He is of KngHsh descent, cil. Royal and Select Masters; and of Pilgrim Corn- 
tracing his ancestry back to John and Leonard mandery. Knights Templar, Laconia. He was Emi- 



Harriman, who came to this coimtry from Rowley 
in 163S. He received his education in the com- 




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A. H. HARRIMAN. 

mon school, in a private High School in Lovell, 
Maine, and in the academies in Fryeburg and 
Bridgton. Maine. His jjrofessional studies were 
pursued at Howdoin C'ollege Medical School, from 
which he was graduated in 1883. He commenced 
practice in Mercer, Maine, but after eight months 
removed to Sandwich, New Hampshire, where he 
remained for three years and a half. In November, 
1887s he settled in Laconia, and has remained there 
up to the present time. He has attained a promi- 
nent position in his profession, and has been most 
successful in the management of difficult cases, 
both surgical and medical, where skill and accurate 
knowledge are requisite. He is an active member 
of New Hampshire Medical Society and the \\ inni- 
pesaukee Academy of Medicine. A contributor to 
periodical medical literature and to " The Refer- 
ence I Iand-l!iM.k (if Medical Sciences." He was a 
member of the School lioard of Laconia for four 
years, and for three years was President of the 
Board. lie is a diniilted member of Delt.i Lodge, 
Ancient Free and .Accepted Masons, Lovell, Maine ; 
of I'nion Chapter, Royal Arch Nhisons, of which he 



nent Commander of the latter in iS96-'98. Doctor 
Harrinian has always been a Democrat, though he 
never took an active part in politics. He was mar- 
ried I''ebruary 10. 1884. to Katherine K. Walker 
of Lovell, Maine. They have two sons: Haven 
Walker and Nathaniel |ov Harrinian. 



HEFF"ENGER, Arthur Cowton, Physician, 
Retired Navy Surgeon. Portsmouth, was born at 
Cumberland. ALiryland, F)ecember ij. 1852, son of 
I. .Alexander and Catherine Lane llefl'enger. He 



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A. C. IlK^'FENCKK. 

was prepared for college by private tutors, entered 
the I'niversity of \'irginia, and was graduated in 
1874, and took a medical course in the L'ni\ersity 
of Maryland, in 1875. After leaving college, he 
entered the navy as Assistant Surgeon, and was 
]Momoted in .Marcli, 1878. After a term of service 
of sixteen years, he retired. For over three years 
of that time he was in South .America, during the 
I'eru-Chili war, following the armies, and acquired 
most of his wide experience as a Surgeon during 
that time. He spent five years on special duty 
under the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, during 
which time he designed and built the United States 
Naval Quarantine Hospital, at Widow's Island, 



MKN OF PR()(;RK.SS. 



141 



Maine. He retiiL-d nii acroiint iif ill liualtli 
acquired lay exposure in a ln>|iital climate, and 
since this time has been in prai tire in the city of 
Portsmouth. Doctor HetTen^er has always been a 
Republican. He is a member nf the ISdard i>f 
Water Commissioners, also of the lldanl of Instruc- 
tion of the city of I'ortsmouth, and of tiie State 
Board of Medical Examiners, l)esides numerous 
societies. He was married in 1878 to ]''anny ('., 
daui;hter of Commodore Chailcs W. I'i( kerinj;-, 
Ignited States Navy. 'I'he)- have six children : 
Mary Stearns, Katharine, Constance, I'riscilla 
Stearns, Francesca, and Ch.uies I'ickeriui; Hef- 
fenger. 

ll(»ld!S, lusKPH ( )I,IVKR. AFeniberof Cio\ernor"s 
Coinicil and Real Estate Dealer, North Hamp- 
ton, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 4, 
1855, son of [oseph Stacey and Marv Dearborn 
(Andrews) Hobbs. On the paternal side he is 
descended from Morris Hobbs, who settled in 
Hampton in 1637, comint; to this country from 
England. ( )ne of [oseph's ancestors was |ohn 




attended the llrinuner School in lloston. and the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. For five years 
he was in the employ of Wadley, Spurr & Com- 
pany, wholesale grocers, in lioslon, leasing them to 
go into the commission business with his father, 
with whom he remained twelve years. This enter- 
prise Mr. Hobbs ga\e up u])on coming to New 
Hampshire. His present business is farming, but 
he devotes much time to real estate in Boston, Som- 
erville, f<ye Beach, and othei' ])laccs. He is part 
owner of the Forest Hill Hotel, Franconia. He is 
a Director of the Stovene Manufacturing Com- 
pany, of the (Granite State l''ire Insurance Com- 
pany, and the First National Bank; and a Trustee 
of the Piscataqua Savings Bank, and of the Hamp- 
ton Academy, which was organized in 1S08. He 
is a member of Rockingham Lodge, No. 22, Inde- 
pendent ( )rder of Odd Fellows; Hunto Encamp- 
ment of Hampt<in, .nid (anton Senter, Patriarchs 
Militant, of Portsmouth; Derryfield Club of Man- 
chester; W'onolancet Clubof Concord; Portsmouth 
Athletic Club and Warwick Club of Portsmouth; 
Piscataqua Boat Club of Kittery, Maine; Rocking- 
ham Congregational Club; the Venus Mutual 
Relief Association of North Hampton, and the 
Grange. He now holds the position of Republi- 
can Councillor for the First district, anil is on the 
State Prison Committee and on the Conuiiittee on 
State House and Grounds. He married December 
19, 1893, Annie F". Hobbs. They have four chil- 
dren: Joseph Harold, John U'illiam I''rench, Lemira 
Mae, and Leon Pickering Hobbs. 



iJearborn, at one time ( 'omnunider-in-C 'hid ot the 
American Army; and his great-unck', lohn W. !•'. 
Hoblss, was the originator of the < )1(1 Red Line 
coaches that ran from Dock .S(_|uare to ('anion 
Street, lioston, for nian\' years. Mi. Hobbs 



HUN']', William Prkscott, Manufacturer, Bos- 
ton, was born in iJath, Ncw^ Hampshire, January 
14, 1S27, son of Caleb and Rebecca (l^ool) Hunt. 
Fie belongs to the Amesbury branch of the Hunt 
family; his grandfather Pool was a Surgeon in the 
Revolutionary Army and married a sister of Doctor 
John Hale of Hollis, New Il.nnpshirc, and sister of 
the wife of Colonel Prescott who fought at Bunker 
Hill. His father was a woolen manufacturer at 
Bath and imported the fust carding machine used 
in that state, and his mother, a native of Hollis, 
New Hampshire, was a cousin of W. IL Prescott, 
the historian. Mr. Hunt attended the Academy at 
Haverhill, New Hampshire, and was fitted for 
DartUKHith, but receiving an offer fiom the South 
Boston Iron Company, he enteied the service of 
that corporation in August, 1847. He was elected 
'i'reasurer of the com|)an\- in 1863, and President 
and Treasurer in [876, and h;is lu-ld the same 



142 



MEN nv ?'R()(;rk.ss. 



offices in the corporations succeeding that com- tor Oliver Wendell Holmes was connected with the 
pany. He has been President of the Forbes Lith- school as tutor, and says: " I have always reniem- 
ographic Manufacturing Company from 1875 to the bared a remark he made to me one morning on my 
present lime; President of the ]5oston Machine first attempt at dissection, viz., he didn't think I had 

become quite a king of the scalpel." He was gradu- 
ated with honors from the Medical Department of 
]5owdoin College in 1847. He began practice in 
Kittery, Maine, in the same year, and remained 
there seven years, then removed to Newton, Massa- 




WII.l.IAM I'. Hi;.\T. 

Company from 1S64 to 1SS4; he has been a Direc- 
tor in the 15oston Lead Manufacturing Company 
since 1880. and was a Director in the Canver 
Cotton-gin Companv from i860 to 188S. He was 
elected a Director of the Atlas .National Bank 
of Boston in 1872, President in 1878. serving 
until 1 88 J. He is a member of the Commercial 
Club of jioston. Mr. Hunt married in 1856, Kath- 
erine Muller of New York city, who died in 1869. 
September 28. 1S71, he married Helen S. Cum- 
mings of New liedford. He has live children : 
Mary E., William Prescott, Henry .\I., and John 
Cumniinirs Hunt. 



KIN(;, l\tir> lldKNi;. Physician, Wolfboro. was 
born in Waketiekl, New Hampshire, September 26. 
1821, adopted son of \\'illiam Home and Sally 
Home of Wolfboro, New Hampshire. He attended 
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mas.sachusetts, taking 
the classical course, and was graduated in 1844. 
He then studied medicine with Doctor George B. 
Garland of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and with 
Doctor L F. Hall of Wolfboro. He attended the 
old Tremont Medical School in Boston, when Doc- 




chusetts, and later to Newark. New Jersey. In 
i860 he settled in Wolfboro, where he has remained 
ever since. He is one of the leading physicians of 
Carroll county, and is highly respected in the com- 
munity. He held the oflfice of Examining Surgeon 
from 1868 to 1884. He is a member of the State 
Medical Society, and of the Carroll County Medi- 
cal Society. He is a member of the First Unita- 
rian Society of Wolfboro. in politics Doctor King 
is a Republican. 



LANGDON. WooDiiURV, one of the most influ- 
ential business men of New York, was born in 
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, October 22, 1836, 
son of Woodbury and Frances (Cutter) Langdon. 
He was fitted at the Portsmouth Grammar School, 
but did not enter college. His commercial career 
was begun in Bo.ston. but in 1863 he removed to 
New York to represent the house of F"rothingham 



MEN OF PROGRflSS. 



143 



&: C'oiiipan\- of tlic forniL-r city. He was Lulniitted 
to partnership in t868. and two years later the 
firm was changed to Joy, Langdon \' Company. It 
is to-day one of the oldest and best known commis- 
sion houses in the country. Mr. Langdon is a man 
of many interests. He is a Director of the Central 
National ISank, National Hank of Commerce. Cer- 
man American Fire Insurance Company, and New 
York Life Insurance Company, also Director Title 
Ciuarantee Ov Trust Company. He is a Vice-Presi- 
dent of the New York Chamber of Conunerce, and 
since 1888 has been a member of the Kxecutive 
Committee. In 1890 he was made a member of 
the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners of the 
Citv and Countv of New York. He was a Direc- 




W()oi)i;URV i..\Mnjox. 

tor of the New England Society, a member of the 
ITnion League Club, and has been its Vice-Presi- 
dent since 1889. In politics he is an ardent Re- 
pul)lican. He married in 1896, F'.lizabeth I'llwyn, 
daughter of Alfred Elwyn. 



LINCOLN, Nath.\n Smiiii, I'hvsician. Wash- 
ington, District of ('olumbia, was born in (Gardner, 
Massachusetts, son of Reverend Increase Sumner 
and Oracia Eliza (Smith) Lincoln. His ancestors 
on both sides were English, his father being a 
descendant of the famous Lincolns of Hingham, 



1635. and to which Ri'e'sident Lincoln also belonged. 
On the maternal side he is descended from Rever- 
end Peter Bulkley of Pulkley Manor, England. His 
great-grandfather was Oeneral Jonathan Chase of 
Revolutionary fame, and it is a curious coincidence 
that while on the one side, (leneral Chase drew up 
the articles of svnrender for ISurgoyne's army at 
Saratoga, C.eneral benjamin Lincoln received the 
sword of Cornwallis, w hen he suirendered to W'ash- 
intrton at Yorktown. I Jocloi- Lincoln's familv is 
distinguished, not onh' in w.ir ])ut in the ranks of 
science and learning. Mis giandf.ither. Doctor 
Nathan Smith, was the most celebrated surgeon of 
his day. having founded the medical schools of 
\'ale and Dartmouth, and cuiupying the Surgical 
chair of \'ale at the time of his death in 1829. He 
was also Professor of Surgery at liowdoin College 
and at the University of Vermont. At the time of 
Doctor Lincoln's birth antl foi' man\- _\ears after, his 
father. Reverend Increase S. Lincoln, held the pas- 
torate of the First Congregational chiuTh of Gard- 
ner, Massachusetts. He was witleh' known as a 
scholar and associated himself with the abolition 
party at an early stage of its e.xistence, being a 




N. S. LINC()I.N. 



warm friend of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd 
(iarrison. He died in 1890, at the age of ninety- 
one, at that time being the oldest Cnilari.in mini.s- 
Massachusetts, wh(j emigrated to this country in ter in the I'nited States, .md having been actively 



144 



MKX t)F I'ROGRESS. 



engaged in the ministry for sixty-five years. Doc- 
tor Lincoln was graduated from Dartmouth College 
in 1850, receiving the degree of Hachelor of Laws 
and Master of Arts, and since then that of Doctor 
of Laws, from his Alma Mater. He attended med- 
ical lectures at the University of Mar\-land, receiv- 
ing his degree from that institution in 1852. Until 
January, 1854, he practiced in lialtimore and since 
that date, has resided in Washington, holding 
many offices of distinction. In 1857 he was elected 
Professor of Chemistry in the Columbian Univer- 
sity ; in 1S59, lie was made I'rofessor of Theory 
and Practice of Medicine; in i860. Professor of 
Anatomy and Physiology, and in 1861, Professor of 
Surgery, holding the latter chair until 1874, when 
he resigned on account of the pressure of private 
practice. In 1 861, he was appointed by President 
Lincoln, Surgeon to the District of Columbia Vol- 
unteers. He was Surgeon-in-Chief of the hospitals 
established in Washington b)' the Quartermaster's 
Department in 1861. In 1866 he was elected one 
of the Surgeons of the Providence Hospital, resign- 
ing in 1S75. For a number of years he was Phy- 
sician to the Deaf Mute College and to several 
other institutions. He has made surgery a specialty, 
and has performed successfully a large number of 
important operations, including amputation at the 
hip joint, lithotomy, removing tumors from the region 
of the head and neck, ligation of the large arteries, 
etc. Doctor Lincoln is a member of the District of 
Columbia Medical Association, being Vice-Presi- 
dent in 1872 and President in 1875 ^"<^' iS76;a 
member of the .American Medical Society, Presi- 
dent of the .\lumni .Association of the University of 
Maryland and a member of the Philosophical Soci- 
ety of Washington. Doctor Lincoln married in 
1877, Miss Jeanie T. Could, daughter of the late 
Judge George Gould of the Supreme Court Bench 
of the State of New \'ork, and Chief Justice of the 
Court of Appeals. He has two children by this 
marriage : George (Inuld and Natalie Sumner Lin- 
coln. 



OSG()()D. .\iiiiis()N Newton. Lunibcrnian, Sun- 
cook, was born in Allenstown, New Hampshire, 
March 16, 1836, son of Ira li. and .Alice (Prescott) 
Osgood. He traces his descent from Christopher 
Osgood, of Ipswich, England, who died in 1650, 
and belongs to the seventh generation of the family 
in this country. The siibject of this sketch received 
his education in the common schools of his native 
town and at Pembroke Academy. After leaving 



school he spent three years in Boston. In 1S60, 
he settled in Pembroke, where he engaged in lum- 
bering, preparing his lumber for the market on the 
site of the old mill once owned by his father. He 
has been most successful in his business enter- 




A. .\. O.SdUDlP. 

prises, and owns much valuable real estate in Pem- 
broke and Allenstown. Mr. Osgood was a member 
of the Legislature in 1878 and 1879, and was a 
member of the lioard of Selectmen of Pembroke 
for a number of years. He is a Thirtv-second 
Degree Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pyth- 
ias, a Patron of Husbandry, and is affiliated with 
the Grange of Pembroke. He is a member of the 
Methodist Church. In politics he is a Republican. 
Mr. Osgood was married, December 17, 1S65, to 
Mary K., daughter of William A. and Julia (I'pham) 
Phelps. 



.Ml (jri'.S'I'l'A', Fr<;KNK F.. Phxsician and Sur- 
geon, Nashua, was born in Litchfield, New H.imp- 
shire, October i i, 1843, ^"" of Isaac and Margaret 
Ann (Chase) McQuesten. His family, resident in 
Litchfield since 1735, '^ "^ Scotch-Irish origin, the 
pioneer ancestor being William McQuesten, who 
emigrated from the north of Ireland (Coleraine). 
Doctor McQuesten received his education in the 
public .schools of Nashua, graduating from the 
Hijrh School in i860. He then entered Blanchard 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



145 



Academy, Pembroke, and after a two years" course 
entered the Scientific Department of Dartmoutii 
College. Two years later he began the study of 
medicine with Doctor losiah O. Graves, of Nasiiua. 
He attended one course of lectures at Dartmoutii 
College, and two courses at the Jefferson Medical 
College, receiving the degree of M. D. from the 
latter institution, March 10, 1866. In 1872 and in 
1892 he took a full course of lectures at the medical 
college from which he received his degree. After a 
few months' practice in Lynn, Massachusetts, Doc- 
tor McQuesten liegan the practice of medicine in 
Nashua, January i. 18(17. He is to-day the oldest 
practicing physician in the city, although by no 
means the oldest physician in point of years, lie 
has enjoyed many honors at the hands of the public 
as well as at the hands of his fellow physicians, and 
is to-day one of the most widely known and re- 
spected physicians in the state. He was City Phy- 
sician in 187 I ; Secretary of the Board of Education 
in i87i-'72; a Representative to the General Court 
from Ward Two in iS73-'74, and was Secretary of 
the Board of Pension E.xaminers from 1893 to 1897. 
Doctor McQuesten's practice is general, and is, 




I-,. F. M. ot'ESTEN. 

beyond dis]:)ute, the largest in the city. He is espe- 
cially noted as a surgeon, ant! is frequently called 
upon to perform difficult ojjerations in all sections 
of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, lie is a 
member of the Ann-ric.m .Medical Association, 



American Association of Railway Surgeons, the 
New Hampshire My^lical Society, holding the office 
of President in t8():;; the Nashua Medical Society, 
of which he was President in 189J, and of the New 
\'ork Medico-Legal Society. He is a Mason, a 
uRinber of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Knights 'I'em- 
plar, and Mystic Shrine. He has traveled exten- 
sively, both in this countr\' and abroad. He is not 
only a good physician but is also a good citizen, 
taking an earnest, active interest in every progres- 
si\-e movement. While in politics he has always 
been a Democrat, until the ISrvan campaign, and, at 
times, has taken an active part in public affairs, he 
has never allowed his political interests to interfere 
in the least with his professional work. In 18G8, he 
married Lizzie M., daughter of Solomon Spalding, 
of Nashua. She died in 1877. He married, in 1879, 
Mary Abbie, daughter of Joseph A. Howard, of the 
same place. She died in 1885, and in May, 1S87, 
he married Anna E., daughter of William R. 
.Spalding, of Lawrence, INLassachusetts. Thev have 
three children: I'hiHp, Josei_ihine. and Eugene 1''. 
McQuesten, Jr. 



PILLSBURY, Ai.iiKur Enoch, E.\-Attorney- 
(ieneral of Massachusetts, Boston, was born in 
Milford, New Hampshire, August rg, 1849, son of 
Josiah \\'ebster and Elizabeth (Dinsmoor) Pills- 
bury. ( )n the paternal side he is of English 
descent, through William Pillslnnv, who came from 
Derbyshire and settled in Newbury (now Newbury- 
port), Massachusetts, in 1641. His gieat-grand- 
father, Parker Pillslnny. was a soldier of the 
Revolutionary War. His father was educated for 
a professional career, being graduated from Dart- 
mouth in 1840, but in \-iew of his health was com- 
pelled to adopt an out-door life, and lietame a 
farmer. On the maternal side he is descended 
from John Barnet and John Dinsmoor, original 
•Scotch settlers of Londonderrw New Hampshire. 
Mr. Pillsbury attended the High School in his 
nati\e town, Ajipleton Academy, New Ipswiih, 
New Hampshire, and l.,i\\rence Acadein\, (iioton, 
Massachusetts, where he graduated ,nul enterLd 
Harvard in 1867, liul did not Hnish the course, 
leaving college to teai li school and to study law in 
the West. He read l.iw wilh lames i)insuioor, his 
uncle, at Sterling, Illinois, and was admittetl to the 
Bar of that stale. Returning to the East, he was 
admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1871, settled 
in Boston and began the practice of his profession 
the same year. .\s a lawyer he has been highly 



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MEN OF PROCRKSS. 



successful. lie is counsel for numerous large cor- 
porations and for some years past has devoted 
himself principalh' to this class of business, having 
declined judicial and other public positions. He 
has published a number of legal arguments and 
addresses, and conlriliuu-d to legal and other 




.VLP.ERT E. PII.I.SIUJRV. 

periodicals. Mr. I'illsliurv was a member of the 
Massachusetts Legislature in 1876, 1877, and 1878. 
From the beginning he took his place among the 
leaders. He was elected to the Senate of 1884, 
and was Iwdce re-elected. In 1885, he was unani- 
mously chosen President of the Senate, an honor 
again conferred upon him a _\car later. From 1891 
to 1893 inclusive he was .\ttorney-(;eneral of the 
Commonwealth. He was prominently mentioned 
for the Republican nomination for Governor in 
1892, and was the leading candidate for the nomi- 
nation against Governor Creenhalge in 1893. Mr. 
Pillsbury was President of the Mercantile Library 
Association in 1879; he has been the President 
and a Director of the United States Trust Com- 
pany since its organization, and a Tru.stee of the 
Franklin Savings Pank for about ten years. Since 
1S96 he has been T^ecturer on ('onstitutional Law 
in the Law School of Poston University, and he 
was recently appointed a Commissioner to revise 
the charter of the City of Po.ston. He is a member 
of the Algonquin, Art. and L'niversity Clubs; of 
the Massachusetts, Middlesex, and other political 



clubs ; \'ice-President of the .Massachusetts Society 
for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; a member 
of the .American Academy of Political and Social 
Science ; and various other scientific, charitable, 
and literary societies. Mr. I'illsbury deli\ered the 
annual oration before the ISoston City Government 
on the Fourth of July, 1890. The honorary degree 
of A. M. was conferred upon him by Harvard Col- 
lege in 189 I. 



I'l^A RS( )\. KiiWARii Naihan, Nhuiager of the 
Rumford I'rinting Company. Concord, was born in 
Webster. .September 7, 1859. son of fohn C. and 




E. N. PEARSDN. 

Lizzie S. (Colby) Pearson. He was prepared for 
college at the Warner High School and at Pen- 
acook Academy, entered Dartmouth, and was grad- 
uated in the class of 1881. He then taught for a 
year in the public schools of Washington, District 
of Columbia. He was Associate Editor of the 
Concord Evening Monitor and Independent States- 
men from 1882 to 1890; Managing Editor of the 
same from 1890 to 1898, and ]5usiness Manager 
of the Republican Press Association from 1892 to 
1898. January i, 1898. he resigned the two posi- 
tions last named to become Manager of the Rum- 
ford Printing Company, a corporation organized by 
him to assume by purchase the general printing 
business of the Republican Press Association. He 
was elected Public Printer by the Legislature in 



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1S93, and re-elected in 1895. Mr. Pearson was 
married, December 6, 1882, to Addie M. Sargent, 
of Lebanon. Thex' have four children : Edward 
N.. Jr.. Robert H.. John W.. and Mildred Pearson. 



PEA RS( )N. John Couch, Penacook, President 
of the Riiinford Printing Company of Concord, 
was born in lioscawen, New Hampshire, May 
26, 1835, son of Nathan and Eliza (Couch) Pear- 
son. He was educated in the common schools, at 
Rimball Union Academy, Meriden, and at the 
Merrimack Normal Institute, Reed's l''erry, New 
Hampshire. He followed the vocation of farmer 
and wool grower in Webster until 1871, when he 
engaged in mercantile pursuits, continuing the lat- 
ter for a short time in Penacook, to which place he 
removed in 1876. and where he has since resided. 



PEARSON, John H.xrris, Concord, was born in 
Sutton, New Hampshire, March 17, 18 iS, son of 
Thomas and Abigail (Ambrose) Pearson. His 
mother was the daughter of PHder Ambrose, for 
many years Paptist minister at Sutton. Her great- 
grandfather was a relative of Lord Nelson, and 
came from England and settled in Newburyport, 
I\Lassachusetts. He was also a Raptist minister. 
Mr. Pearson's earlier eduiational achantages were 
limited. Later he attended the school at Henni- 
ker and Hopkinton Acadeni\'. He has been in 
business since he was twent}-one years of age. He 
built the Penacook Flour Mills and was in the flour 
and grain business in Depot Square for twcnty-flve 
years. He was also engaged for a time in the man- 
ufacture of flour in Akron. ( )hio, and at ( )gdens- 
burgh, New \'ork. Mr. Pearson stands in the 
first rank of New Hampshire business men. He 
was the first man in Concurd to liring flour and 
grain in large cpiantities from the West. He is 
known as "the great New Hampshire Railroad 
fighter." He has won his way in the world by 
hard and perse\eiing work. i'"oi years he was a 




A^. 







J. C. PEARSON. 

Mr. Pearson was a member of the Legislature in 

1871, 1872, and 1887, and was State Senator in 

1889. He has also served as County Connnis- 

sioner, has filled various town offices, and is a 

Director in banking and other corporations. He 

married Lizzie S. Colby of Nashua. The)' ha\e 1 )irector in the ConconKS; Montreal Railroad, and 

three sons: Edward N., of Concord, John \\'., of is now^ next to the largest stockholder in the road. 

]5oston, and Harlan C. Pearson of Concord, gradu- He is an Episcopalian and a Mason. Mr. Pearson 

ates of Dartmouth College in 1881, 1883, and 1893 has been a Democrat all his life. In 1839 he was 

respectively. married to Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel Putter- 



J. H. I'K..\RS()N. 



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MEN Ol' I'ROCRKSS. 



field; she died in 1879. 'I'iic)' h;id one son : Charles 
Pearson, who was graduated from Dartmouth Col- 
lege, and died in 1883. Having lost his first wife, 
Mr. Pearson in 1889 was married to Jessie Ridgelej-, 
daughter of the late Colonel Jesse A. Gove, United 
States Arni\', who was killed in the Civil War. 



PKRKIN.S, Ai.iiKKr Alona), i!ank President 
and Treasiner, Somersworth, was born in (.)ssi- 
pee. New Hampshirt, March 6, 1826, son of Levi 
and Maria (Desniazes) Perkins; and died March 
16, 1898. His father was a native of Wells, Maine, 
and a descendant of one of the early English set- 
tlers of that region. His mother was born in New- 
buryport, Massachusetts, her father having come 
to America from France near the close of the last 
century. The subject of this sketch attended the 
district schools and for sexcral terms the academies 
of Effingham and Wakefield. At the age of twenty- 
one, he bought a country store in his native village 
and conducted it for fi\e years. In November, 
1852, he was chosen Treasurer of the Great Falls 
& Conway Railroad. He was an officer of the 
road in Somersworth and was chosen Superinten- 




A. A. I'KKKINS. 

dent in 1853, when the road was in a feeble condi- 
tion. Mr. Perkins devoted his energies to build- 
ing up the line, extending it from Milton to North 
Conway, and from .Somersworth to Conway Junc- 
tion. In 1873 his health being somewhat impaired. 



he resigned the position and ffir several years 
spent the winters in Florida and the summers in 
the North. In 1.S76, he was elected Treasurer of 
the Somersworth Savings Bank. He was also 
elected President of the Great Falls National Bank. 
He was a member of the School Committee, and 
was Alderman for three terms. In 1859 and i860, 
he was a member of the (General Court. In 1845, 
Mr. Perkins was married to Abby Crosby ISean of 
Gilmanton, New Hampshire, who died in 1S91. 
He was again married in November. 1892, to Mrs. 
Harriet Bates LeGro, widow of Captain Edgar B. 
LeGro of .Somersworth. 



PORTER, Royal Hkrvev, lianker, Keene. was 
born in Wendell, Franklin county, Massachusetts, 
August 21, 1827, son of Noah and Nabby (Comins) 
Porter. He is of English stock, being a descend- 
ant in the seventh generation from John Porter, 
who was born in Dorset, England, in 1596, and 
came to this country, settling in Hingham, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1635. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools and at New Salem Academy, Williston 
Seminary, and at Northlield, New Hampshire. He 
worked on his father's farm in the summers until he 
was twenty-one, attending school in the winters up 
to the time he was sixteen, when he commenced 
teaching, and taught terms in New Salem and 
Hardwick. Massachusetts, and at Keene, West- 
moreland, Marlborough, and Dublin, New Hamp- 
shire. At the age of twenty-one he became a 
teacher in a public school at Laurel, Maryland, and 
remained there a year, boarding with the father of 
Senator Gorman, who was his pupil. He then 
accepted a position as l'rinci]xil in a private school 
in Georgetown, Di.strict of Columbia, and held it 
ff)r two years, when he was appointed Discount 
Clerk in the Farmers iV Mechanics' Bank of that 
city, a position he held for about three years. Mr. 
Porter, during his residence in the District of 
Columbia, frequently visited the Capitol, where he 
heard many of the famous orators and statesmen 
of the day: Sumner. Webster, Clay, Calhoun. Hen- 
ton, Cass, Cobb. Hale, Mann and others, and wit- 
nessed many dramatic scenes of those stormy 
times, among them the vote in the House of Rep- 
resentatives on the repeal of the Missouri Compro- 
mise. He was elected Cashier of the Cheshire 
Bank of Keene. and entered upon his duties Octo- 
ber I, 1S55. He held the position until January 1, 
1898. when he was elected \'ice-President, and his 
son, Walter R., who had been associated with him in 



MKN OF PROCRESS. 



149 



the liank for eighteen \ears, was chosen Cashier to R()BINS()N, Iohn LoMiiARn, for man)' years a 

succeed him. In lanuarw 18(14, the hank became a leading Physician and Surgeon of Manchester, and 
national institution, and increased its capital from who died in that city June 13. 181)6, was born in 
one hundred thousand dollars to two hundred th<iu- Pembroke, Xew Hampshiie, January :?. 1S35, son 
sand dollars. His term of office — over forty-two years of Samuel and I'.etsy (Webstei) Robinson. He 

comes of old Puritanic stock, being descended 
from Iohn Rohinsoii, the hrst preacher of Pl)'- 
mouth. His mother, born lietsy Webster, was sec- 
ond cousin of Daniel Webster, the famous states- 
man. Iohn L. Robinson attended the common 
schools and academy of Pembroke, and then went 
to Wilbraham Academy in Massachusetts. He 
took two courses at Dartmouth, and was graduated 
from Harvard Medical School in iS^q, He began 
his practice in Wenham, Massachusetts, March, 
1859. Doctor Robinson became deeply interested 
in that place, and for twenty years made it his 
home. \\'hen the wai' bioke out he became Assist- 
ant Surgeon of the l-aghth Regiment of Massachu- 
setts Volunteers (nine months men) and ser\'ed with 
that regiment and was nuislered in, iSdj. He was 
stationed in Newl)erne, North Carolina, with the 
regiment, particijiating with it in the \arious cam- 




R. H. PORTER. 

— was profnibly longer than is to the credit of any 
other Cashier in the state. During all this time the 
bank enjoyed prosperity, never failing to pay a 
semi-annual dividend besides accumulating a large 
surplus fund. Mr. Porter was County Treasurer 
for three years ; Town and City Treasurer for fifteen 
years, which office he holds at the present time; 
State Senator two years, i8j^-'j(i. being Chairman 
of the Banking and Judiciary Committees ; Trustee 
of the State Normal School, and President of the 
ll<iar(l during the same years. He is a Mason, a 
nieuiber of Lodge of the Temple, Cheshire Ro\-al 
Arch Chapter and Hugh de Payens Conunandery. 
In politics he has always been a Republican, but 
believes that municipal government should be con- 
ducted upon business principles, irrespectixe of pol- 
itics. Mr. Porter was married May 27, i.S:;2, to 
Maria M. Thompson. They had three children : 
Ada M., Alice C., and Walter R. Porter. On Jan- 
1S69, he was married to Kmilie M. 
j;hter, Kmilie W. Porter, was 
born to them. On September 4, 1S73, he married 
Kllen K. Dickinson. 



uary 12, 

Wheaton, and one daugi 




JOHN I.. R()I!INSt)N. 

paigns and ex]5eilitions in the Dep.irtmenl of North 
C-'arolina, and at {''ortress Monroe, llaltimore, Mary- 
land Heights, on the route to join the Army of the 
Potomac. He was mustered out August 7, 1S63. 
In |uly, 1864, he was appointed Surgeon of the 



'5° 



MKN OF 1'RC)(;RESS. 



Eighth Massachusetts MiHtia, and was on duty with 
the regiment near Hahiniore. He was mustered 
out of the L'nited States Service, November lo, 
1864, but continued his services with the Massa- 
chusetts Vokmteers, until his resignation, January 
13, 1865. Ifpon his removal to Manchester, Doctor 
Robinson quickly took a leading position among 
the men of his profession. He was an active 
member of the Elliott Hospital StaiT for four years, 
w'hen he resigned this post, being elected consult- 
ing member, and so continued until his death. He 
was a member of the Harvard Medical Alumni 
Association, and at the time of his death was one 
of its Vice-Presidents. He was a member of 
the Eighth Massachusetts Veterans' Association ; of 
Louis Bell Post, Grand Army of the Republic of 
Manche.ster ; of the Manchester Art Association ; 
a Fellow with the Massachusetts Medical Society 
for thirty-seven years ; a Fellow with the New 
Hampshire Medical Society ; a Mason, and a 
member of the Chapter of Washington Lodge of 
Manchester. He was received as companion with 
the first class militia order of Loyal Legions of the 
United States, April 3, i8S(j. In politics. Doctor 
Robinson was a Republican, although he w^as far 
from a partisan. He was a member of the F'rank- 
lin Street Congregational Church of Manchester. 
He married Phcebe Ann Hadley of W'enhani, I\Lts- 
sachusetts. They had two children : |ohn Frank- 
lin and ."Xnnie Maria Robinson. 



RUNDLETT, Louis John, Superintendent of 
the public schools of Concord, was born in Bed- 
ford, New Hampshire, March 14, 1858, son of 
William Avers and Louisa (McPherson) Rundlett. 
His grandfather, Thomas Rundlett, was among the 
early settlers of Manchester and was of English 
stock, by trade a hatter. He died at the age of 
74. On the maternal side, his grandfather, Stephen 
McPherson, of Scotch descent, was one of the early 
settlers of ]5edford and a farmer. He died at the 
age of ninety-si.x. Mr. Rundlett attended the pub- 
lic schools of Manchester and Bedford, entered 
Dartmouth College, took a classical course and 
was graduated in the class of 1S81. He taught 
in Boscawen in the winter of i8Si-'82 ; in Fisher- 
ville, now^ Penacook, in i882-'85, when he w^as 
appointed Superintendent of Schools of Concord, 
a position he now holds. He has the degree of 
A. M. Mr. Rundlett won his education by his own 
pluck and determination. The first seventeen 
years of his life he spent on a f.irm in ISeclford. 



He worked his own w-ay through the city schools 
of Manchester, and through college. During his 
stay in Hanover lie was prominent in athletics, and 
was for three years pitcher of the college nine. At 
the close of his course he had offers to pitch on 




I.. I. lUMiLKIl. 

the Worcester and Detroit League teams, but 
declined them. He has been highly successful as 
an instructor and has received a number of offers 
to leave Concord, but has been retained in that 
city by fretpient increase in salary. Fie is profi- 
cient on the violin, an able elocutionist and a suc- 
cessful painter in oils. He is a member of the 
Wonolancet Club of Concord ; the Horace Chase 
Lodge of Penacook; Trinity Royal Arch Chapter; 
the Horace Chase Council, as well as Moimt 
Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar. In poli- 
tics Mr. Rundlett is a F)emocrat. He was married 
September 6, 1892, to Carrie Belle Copley of New 
Britain, Connecticut. They have one child : Cop- 
ley McPherson Rundlett. 



SH.VPLEW j. Hamii.kin. Lawyer, Exeter, was 
born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. March 25, 
1810, son of James and Sarah (Champney) Shap- 
ley. His father was President of the Bank at 
Portsmouth, also a prominent shipmaster; he de- 
scended from .\le.\ander Shapley who came to this 
country in 1635, and his mother was a grand- 



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151 



daughter of Joseph Champncy. n minister of 
Beverly, Massachusetts. He is descended from 
good old New England stock. The Champneys 
came to this country in company with tlie first 
minister of Cambridge. Afr. Shapley received his 
etlucation in the common schools of Portsmouth 
and at the academy in that place. He studied law 
with Ichabod Bartlett, who defied Henry Clay in 
Congress, and was admitted to the Par in 1840. 
Since 1837 he has been connected witli the courts, 
and is at present the oldest member of the Par in 
the county. He was Register of I'robate for five 
years, Justice of the Peace, Recorder of Deeds and 
was the leading counsel in the Pett\' l''arnier case. 




J. HAMILTON SHAPl.EV. 

At the age of nineteen he took a trip to the Medi- 
terranean, and also to New Orleans. Mr. Shapley 
has always been a Republican and his first public 
vote was cast for John Quincy Adams. He also 
voted for William Henry Harrison. Mr. Shapley 
was President of the branch of the United States 
Bank at Portsmouth, also a prominent owner of 
shipping and merchants. 



SMITH, Robert Baxter, Mechanical Engineer, 
Hooksett, was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, No- 
vember II, 1871, son of Charles B. and Martha A. 
(Saunders) Smith. On the paternal side he is of 
English stock, being descended from Colonel \\'il- 



soldiers in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the 
War with Me.xico, and 1861. On the maternal 
side he has among his ancestors William Bradford, 
and Joseph Saunders, the Scotch dissenter. He 
attended the public schools of Tunbridge, and the 
Chelsea (Vermont) Academy, and afterwards re- 
ceived private instruction, while carrying on gen- 
eral contracting work. He was graduated from 
Tufts College, in the classical course, with the 
degree of A. B. in 1895, and during his course de- 
voted much attention to general engineering and 
chemical research as well as the regular work of 
the class. He also took a special course in me- 
chanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology. Previous to his technical studies 
he became thoroughly acquainted with all depart- 
ments of woolen and cotton mills. In i894-'95 he 
was Laboratory Instructor in Physics at Tufts, and 
in i895-'96 was Instructor in Physical Sciences at 
the Somerville High School. He also engaged 
during his college course in architectural work with 
a contracting firm. From 1895 he has carried on 
the work of a {leneral consultintr engineer. He 




R()I!Ef(T I!. SMITH. 



now holds the positions of Agent of the Hooksett 
Mills, Agent of the Crefeld Company, and Mana- 
ger and Chief Engineer of the Merrimack Electric 



Ham Smith, who fought in the French and Indian Company and installed the first long distance high 
wars, and among whose descendants are numbered voltage transmission of electric power in this coun- 



'52 



MKN OK PROC.RKSS. 



try. Now engaged also in the construction of a 
reduction plant at Hooksett for the electrical sepa- 
ration of lead and zinc from the natural ores of New 
England. Mr. Smith is a member of Washington 
Lodge of Masons in Vermont, St. Paul's Chapter, 
Boston, Massachusetts ; Sons of Veterans, Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers, Boston Ath- 
letic Association, and Tufts Chapter of Delta Upsi- 
lon Fraternitv. 



SPAL^LDINCi, Oliver Lym.\n, Assistant Sec- 
retary of the Treasury, Washington, was born in 
Jaffrey, New Hampshire, August 2, 1833, son of 
Lyman and Susan (Marshall) Spaulding. In the 
paternal line he is of English descent. The fam- 
ily removed to the West in Mr. Spaulding's youth 
and settled in Medina, Michigan. Mr. Spaulding, 
who had prepared for college while working on a 
farm in New Hampshire, attended Oberlin College, 
graduating in 1855. For three years he was en- 
gaged as teacher in different high schools in Ohio 
and Michiiran, Init at the same time he carried on 




(,). I.. SPAUl.ni.NG. 

the study of law and was admitted to the Bar in 
1858, beginning his practice at St. Johns, Michi- 
gan, where he has since resided. Mr. Spaulding 
had become well established in his profession, and 
was beginning to reap the success which his years 
of labor had gained for him, when the War of the 



Rebellion opened. Moved by an impulse of patri- 
otism and a sense of duty, he responded to the call 
for volunteers and offered his services to the coun- 
try. In July, 1862, he recruited a company which 
became Company A of the Twenty-third Regiment, 
Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and of which he be- 
came Captain. The regiment was mustered in, in 
September, 1862, and was mustered out June 28, 
1865, at Salisbury, North Carolina In the inter- 
vening period it saw its full share of hard service, 
with plenty of fighting and marching, this service 
extending over a wide range of territory, and in- 
cluding some of the severest engagements of the 
war. He was with the regiment during the entire 
time, and received successive promotions to the 
rank of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, and 
Brevet Brigadier-General. He was at the siege of 
Knoxville, Resaca, Georgia, Lost Mountain, Kene- 
saw Mountain. Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, and 
Fort Anderson, and he took part in the closing 
battles of the war in North Carolina. In his army 
service he won the reputation of a brave soldier 
and discreet commander, gaining his brevet title of 
Brigadier-General for gallant conduct and meritori- 
ous service in the field. .At the close of the war he 
returned to his home and his practice in St. Johns. 
As a lawyer he has been highly successful and has 
been proved particularly able before a jury, his 
method being direct, forceful and practical. Esti- 
mated by his prominence in the law and the extent 
of his public services General Spaulding is among 
the first citizens of Michigan. He was elected a 
Regent of the University of Michigan in 1858. He 
was elected Secretary of the State of Michigan in 
i866, and was re-elected in 186S. In 1871 he was 
tendered and declined an appointment as United 
States District Judge of the Territory of Utah. In 
1875 he was appointed Special .-^gent of the LTnited 
States Treasury Department, a position he held 
until March, :88i, when he resigned it to take a 
seat in Congress, to which he had been elected in 
1.S80. Through a change in the boundaries of the 
district and a fusion of opposing parties, he was 
defeated for re-election, though he ran nearly a 
thousand ahead of his ticket and lost the election 
by but thirty-two votes. He declined a nomina- 
tion in 18S4. In 1883, General Spaulding was 
Chairman of the (io\ernment Commission sent to 
the Sandwich Islands to investigate alleged viola- 
tions of the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty. In 
June, 1885, he was again appointed Special .Vgent 
of the Treasury, but resigned in the following 



MEN OF PR()(iRESS. 



153 



December. Again in 18S9, he accepted tlie position 
of Special Agent, which he held until his appoint- 
ment as Assistant Secretarj- of the '1'reasi.ny in 
July, 1890. On the coming in of the Democratic 
administration in 1S93 he resigned his office and 
returned to the practice of his profession in Michi- 
gan. For several years he was a member of the 
Republican State Committee of Michigan, and in 
1896 was a Delegate to the Republican National 
Convention. President McKinley reappointed him 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in I'^^gy. 
General Spaulding is prominent in Masonry. He 
has been (irand Master of the Grand Lodge; 
Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter, Royal 
.^rch Masons ; Grand Master of the Grand Coun- 
cil of Royal and Select Masters : and Grand Com- 
mander of the Grand Commandery, Knights Tem- 
plar of Michigan. He is a communicant of St. 
John's Episcopal church and has been Senior 
Warden for the past twenty-five years. General 
Spaulding married. May 29, 1856, Jennie Mead, of 
Hillsdale, Michigan, who died November 9, 1857. 
April 12, 1859, he married Martha Minerva Mead, 
a sister of his first wife. She died November 20, 
1861. .August 12, 1863, he married Mary Cecilia 
Swegles, daughter of Hon. John Swegles, formerly 
Auditor General of Michigan. 



his good will in tlie long-established business to 
his nephews, Gilman S., and Frederick E. Stanton, 
sons of Lucius Stanton, who continue the manu- 
facture of silk goods under the firm name of Stan- 
ton Brothers. Mr. Stanton is a member of the 



STANTON, Lucius Manlius, Manufacturer, 
New York, was born in Wakefield, New Hamp- 
shire, August 28, 1839. son of Jacob Clark and 
Nancy (Cook) Stanton. He comes of good old 
New England stock. The Stanton family were 
residents of Rochester, New Hampshire, many 
years before 1800. On the maternal side his 
grandfather was Colonel Benjamin Cooke, of 
Wakefield. Mr. .Stanton was educated at Bev- 
erly and Salem, Massachusetts, and attended the 
public schools from 1843 to 1855. His early boy- 
hood was passed on a farm. His first business 
e.xperience was in i855-'56, as a clerk in a store 
and post-office at Winchester, Massachusetts. For 
about five years he was a salesman in a dry-goods 
house in Boston, but in 186 1 he went to New 
York, as salesman in the silk department of A. T. 
Stewart \- Company. From 1861 to 1869 he was 
connected with the wholesale dry-goods trade, as 
salesman, traveler, and buyer, after which he was 
associated with his younger brother, T. Gilman 
Stanton, in the firm of Stanton Brothers, which 
firm did a successful business for a tpiarter of a 
centurv, when T. (Oilman Stanton retired, giving 




LUCIU.S M. SIANION. 

New England Society of New \'ork : of the Colo- 
nial Club; of the Lfnitarian Club; of the West 
End Association, and the Republican Club. In 
politics he is a Republican. He married. Novem- 
ber 28, 1870, Mary Augusta Shattuck, daughter of 
Isaac Shattuck of Arlington, Massachusetts. He 
has two sons : Gilman Shattuck, born in 1872, and 
Frederick F>erett Stanton, born in 1873. 

STFLARNS, ONsr.dw, twice Governor of New 
Hampshire, and one of the best known railroad 
men in New England, was born in Billerica, Massa- 
chusetts, August 30, 1810, and died in Concord, 
New Hampshire, December 29, 1878. He was the 
son of John Stearns, a prosperous farmer of Billerica, 
and a grandson of Isaac Stearns, a well-known and 
influential citizen of Middlesex county, Massachu- 
setts, who held various local and state offices, and 
was for several years a iTiember of the Executive 
C(;uncil. Onslow Stearns remained at home, at- 
tending school and academy and working on his 
father's farm until he was seventeen years of age. 
In 1S27 he went to I'.oslon and was employed as 



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clerk in the drj'-goods jobbing house of Howe iV' 
Holbrook, a iirm afterwards better known as J. C. 
Howe & Company. In 1830 he went to Virginia, 
and was employed by his brother, John O. Stearns, 
in the engineering department of the construction 




ONSI.OW .SIE.VKNS. 

of the Chesapeake \' Ohio canal. In 1833 he be- 
came associated with his brother in contracts for 
tlie construction of various railroads, among which 
were the Philadelphia & Columbia, the German- 
town, the Philadelphia ^V Trenton, the Philadelphia 
& Norristown, the Delaware & Atlantic, the Cam- 
den & Amboy, the Brooklyn & Jamaica, the Phila- 
delphia, Wilmington & Baltimore, the Elizabeth- 
town \- Somerviile, and the Baltimore & Ohio rail- 
roads. In 1837, after his connection with these 
enterprises had terminated, he became contractor 
in the construction of the Charlestown Branch Rail- 
road in Massachusetts and of the Wilmington .& 
Haverhill Railroad. The former of these became 
a part of the Fitchburg Railroad, and the latter a 
part of the Boston iS: Maine. He also completed 
the construction of the Nashua & Lowell Railroad, 
of which road, on its completion in 183S, he be- 
came Superintendent. In 1845 '^^ resigned his 
position as Superintendent and was appointed 
Agent of the Northern Railroad of New Hamp- 
shire for the purpose of building its road from Con- 
cord to West Lebanon. In May, 1852, he was 



chosen President of the Northern Railroad, and 
held the position until his death, twent\'-seven 
years later. Mr. Stearns was also General Super- 
intendent of the Vermont Central Railroad from 
1S52 to 1855, a short time a Director in the 
Ogdensburgh Railroad, and from 1857 to 1875 a 
Director in the Nashua & Lowell Railroad. He 
was also for a time President of the Sullivan Rail- 
road, the Contoocook Valley, and the Concord Ov; 
Claremont railroads. In the management of the 
various railroads with which he was connected, 
Mr. Stearns won a reputation for enterprise and 
shrewdness which few New England men acquired, 
and his services were sought beyond the geographi- 
cal limits to which his operations had been con- 
fined. In Jul)', 1866, he was chosen President of 
the Old Colony S: Newport Railroad, as the Old 
Colony Road was at that time called, and during 
his administration the Cape Cod Railroad and the 
New Bedford & Taunton Railroad were consoli- 
dated with the Old Colony & Newport, under the 
name of the Old Colony Railroad. The South 
Shore and the Du.xbury & Cohasset railroads were 
also added to the System, and the Old Colony 
Steamboat Company was formed and purchased 
the boats of the Narragansett Steamship Company. 
Of the Steamboat Company he was also made 
President. In 1S74 Mr. Stearns was chosen Presi- 
dent of the Concord Railroad, and held that posi- 
tion until his death. In November, 1877, he re- 
signed the office of President of the Old Colony 
Railroad, finding that its duties superadded to 
those in other directions were making serious in- 
roads on his health. To the performance of all 
these duties he brought perhaps a more thorough 
equipment than was possessed by any man in New 
England, and one surpassed in completeness by 
few men in the country. Beginning his career at 
the foundation of railroad construction, there was 
no department in railroad management with the 
details of which he was not familiar. Few men 
have had imposed on them more arduous labors. 
To the performance of these he devoted not only 
his days, but many hours of the night, and to the 
pressure of their burden may be attributed his 
comparatively early death. Nor did railroad inter- 
ests absorb the whole of his time. In 1862 he was 
chosen a Republican member of the New Hamp- 
shire Senate, and in 1863, having been re-chosen, 
was President of that body. In 1864 he was a 
Delegate-at-large from New Hampshire to the Re- 
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the 7th of January, i86g, was nominated for Gov- 
ernor. He was inaugurated June 3 in that year. 
He was re-chosen the next year in opposition to his 
wishes and served for a second term. During his 
administration, which was characterized by a wise 
conservatism and an economical management of 
the finances of the state, tiie state debt was re- 
duced nearly one third and the state tax more than 
one half. .Xs chief magistrate he gave close atten-- 
tion to details, and no interest failed to receive his 
patient and careful study. Mr. Stearns was mar- 
ried June 27, 1S45, to Mary A., daughter of the 
Hon. Adin Holbrook of Lowell, Massachusetts. 
She died July 2/, 1895. < 'ne son and four daugh- 
ters survive liini. In 1S46 he made Concord his 
permanent hdnie. 



STEARNS, Ezra S., Secretary of State of 
New Hampshire, was born in Rindge, New Hamp- 
shire, September i, 1S38, son of Samuel and Mary 
(Moore) .Stearns. He received his education in 
the public schools, by means of private tutors, and 
in Chester, New Jersey. He taught school for a 




EZRA S. STEARNS. 

time in the latter place. For several years he was 
connected with publishing houses in lioston, New 
York, and Philadelphia, and subsequently was 
Manager and Editor of a newspaper in Fitchburg, 
Massachusetts. In 1875 he published a history of 
Rindge, and in 1887 one of .\shbnrnliam, Massa- 



chusetts, both works of great value in point of 
historical accuracy and literary skill. He was 
Moderator of Rindge for more than twenty years. 
State Senator in i887-'89, and a member of the 
Legislature in i864-'6s-'66 '67, and 1870. While 
he was holding a seat in the House in 1891, he 
was elected Secretary of State. Among the duties 
of his first year in this office was the inauguration 
of the Australian ballot system in New Hampshire, 
and in this, as in other duties of the position, Mr. 
Stearns acquitted himself with high credit. In 
18S7 Dartmouth College conferred upon him the 
degree of A. M. He is a member and Vice-Presi- 
dent of the New England Historic-Genealogical 
Society, member of the .Vmerican Antiquarian 
Society, of the New Hampshire and other histori- 
cal societies, and from time to time he has con- 
tributed many articles upon the early history of his 
native state. 



SWART, U'li.r.iAM Drummonh, Manufactiu'er, 
Nashua, was born in Margaretville, New York, 
July g, 1856, son of William R. and Eliza (Druni- 
mond) Swart. His ancestors on both sides came 
from Holland and were among the fust European 
settlers of New York state, locating at and near 
Kingston on the Hudson river. His great-grand- 
father, son of Samuel Swart, lost his entire pos- 
sessions at the time the IJritish burned the city of 
Kingston, during the Revolutionary War, and his 
grandfather, Samuel Swart, served throughout the 
War of 1S12 with honor and distinction. On the 
maternal side he traces his ancestry back nine 
generations to Walerandt Du Mont, who married 
in Kingston, January 13, 1664, Margaret Hendrick, 
and who was at that time serving on the staff of the 
Noble Lord Director, General .Stuyvesant, in the 
Netherlandish service, stationed at Kingston, New 
York. William Drummond Swart was educated in 
the public schools of Margaretville and at the 
Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, 
finishing at the age of eighteen. After leaving 
school, he was in the employ of Evans, Peak & 
Company, of New York city, wholesale dry goods 
merchants, for five years ; and with Bates, Reed & 
Cooley in the same business, two years. In 188 1, 
he engaged in the decorative art business which he 
carried on successfully in Newark, New Jersey, for 
seven years. .After spending two years in travel in 
this country, he located in Nashua, New Hamp- 
shire, in F'ebruary, 1890, going into the retail lum- 
ber business with Cli.irles A. Roh\', under the firm 



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MEN OI' I'ROCRKSS. 



name of Roby & Swart. Two years later the firm 
purchased the edge tool works in the same city and 
added a wood working plant. In 1S94 the retail 
business was consolidated with F. D. Cook & Com- 
pany, Roby & Swart retaining the manufacturing 




and wholesale business under the name of Roby cS: 
Swart Manufacturing Company. Mr. Swart is a 
Director in the former company and Director and 
Treasurer in the latter. He is also a Director in 
the Nashua Machine Company, in the Nashua 
Trust Company, and Director and Treasurer of the 
Nashua Building Company. In 1893 to 1895 he was 
President of the Board of Trade. He was a mem- 
ber of the Common Council from 1893 to 1895, 
being President for two years, and has been Fire 
Commissioner from 1895 to the present time. He 
was appointed Colonel on Governor Ramsdell's 
staff in 1897. He is a Thirty-second Degree 
Mason and a member of Rising Sun Lodge, Free 
and Accepted Masons, .\aron P. Hughes Council, 
St. George Chapter, and Commandery of the E. A. 
Raymond ("onsistory and of the Aaron P. Hughes 
Lodge of Perfection, .Ancient and Accepted Scot- 
tish Rites, He is a Director of the Congrega- 
tional Church Society. In politics, Mr. Swart has 
always been a Republican. He married, October 
7, 1890, Lizzie A., daughter of Luther A. Roby of 
Nashua. They have two children : F.lizabeth and 
William Roby Swart. 



SWEET, RoiiiCRT Vauchan. Physician and Ex- 
Mayor of Rochester, was born in Port Byron, New 
York, .'Vpril 25, 1865, son of ^'aughan and Judah 
(Ferris) Sweet. His father was of Huguenot and 
his mother of Scotch descent. He received his 
early education in the .Academy in his native town, 
entered Cornell University, and was graduated in 
June, 1885. He was principal of the Rose Union 
School in Rose, New York, during the following 
school year, and then studied medicine in the New 
York Medical CJollege, being graduated in 1888. 
Beginning the practice of his profession imme 
diately in Rochester, he has remained there ever 
since. In December, 1894, he was elected Mayor, 




KOllKRT V. SWEET. 

though the city has a large Republican majority. 
Refusing a renominalion, on account of ill health, he 
left home at the expiration of his term of office and 
spent a year in travel, both in this country and 
abroad. Ur. Sweet is a Knights Templar and Com- 
mander of Palestine Commandery. In politics he 
is an independent Democrat. He married June 
28, 1892, Josephine, daughter of E. G. Wallace, of 
the firm of E. G. iS; E. Wallace. They have three 
children : Pauline, Carlyle Wallace, and Robert 
X'aughan Sweet, Jr. 



WALL.ACE, .AioNzi) Stewart, Physician, 
Nashua, was born in Bristol, Maine, February 17. 
1847, son of David and Margaret Wallace. He is 



MKN <)]•■ I'ROCRKSS. 



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of Irish and Englisli descent. His grandfatiier, 
David Wallace, was one of the pioneers of New 
Hampshire. He was educated in the district and 
high schools of his native place. From the high 
school he entered Lincoln Academy at New Castle, 
Maine, walking a distance of ten miles every Mon- 
day morning, taking food for the week with him, 
and returning Friday nights. 'J'he best he could 
do was to attend two terms a year, and in order to 
accomplish tiiis and also to assist his parents, he at 
first went to sea as a sailor during the summers, 
until by courage and capacity he rose to the posi- 
tion of First Mate of a barque. As his book knowl- 
edge increased, he filled other positions of honor 
and trust, and by teaching between terms he at last 
graduated \\ ilh honors. Although at his graduation 
he was able to pass the examination to enter Bow- 
doin, he entered the Maine Conference Seminary at 
IJucksport and fitted to teach higher grades of 
studies. During this time he was Superintendent 
of Schools in his native town. From 1S69 to 1872, 
he taught in Maine and Massachusetts, being at 
one time Principal of the High School at Rockport, 




S. H. Durgin, and through his inlluence began the 
study of medicine and surgery. He pursued the 
study of anatomy and physiology while still a 
teacher, and after thorough preparation under the 
instruction of Professors ISrackett of Bowdoin, 
and Green of Portland, he entered the medical 
department of Bowdoin. I.,ater he was a student 
at Portland, and finally entered the medical depart- 
ment of Dartmouth, where he was graduated in 
1874. His first practice was at the Massachusetts 
State Lunatic Hospital at Northampton, where he 
remained for six months, resigning to accept the 
position of Assistant Physician f)f the Port of Bos- 
ton. He was promoted to Port Physician, which 
position he filled with great honor and credit, resign- 
ing in 1S79. From this time until 1 888, he practiced 
very successfully in Brookline, New Hampshire. 
He then removed to Rochester, New Hampshire. 
After remaining there one year, he settled in 
Nashua in 1889, where he has gained a very large 
practice. He is a member of the I\Lassachusetts 
Medical Society and the New Hampshire Medical 
Society. Doctor Wallace is a Congregationalist. 
He is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias, 
belonging to the Unitetl Order of the Golden 
Cross and the Pilgrim Fathers, and has recently 
become a Thirt)'-second degree Mason. He mar- 
ried Mary F., only daughter of Charles and Har- 
riet Maynard of Lowell. They have four children : 
Arthur Lowell, born October 12, 1S77 ; Edith May- 
nard, born ]\Larch 24, 1879; F.dna Jime, born June 
8, 1880, and Ina \\'allace, born February 21. 1S90. 



WESTGATE, Tvi.ei^ Judge of Probate, Haver- 
hill, was born in Enfield, New Hampshire, Decem- 
ber 2, 1843, son of Nathaniel W. and Louise 
('I'yler) Westgate. His father was Judge of Pro- 
bate for Grafton county. His great-grandfather, 
John Westgate, came from Rhode Island to Plain- 
field, New Hampshire, about 1778, married Grace 
Church, lineal descendant of Captain Benjamin 
Church, who was distinguished in King Phillip's 
War. They had eleven children, of whom Earl 
Westgate, grandfather of Tyler, was one. Nathan- 
iel W. Westgate was educated at Kimball Acad- 
emy, read law with Charles Manders of I'lainfiekl, 
was admitted to the Bar at Newport, New Hamp- 
Maine. He held office at the Reformatory School shire, in 1827, settled at Enfield, where he practiced 
in Boston at two different times, the second time as successfully for thirty years. He was appointed 
Principal, being very successful with this work and Register of Probate in 1856, at which time he 
gaining the confidence of the boys. While holding moved to Haverhill. Later he succeeded Nathaniel 
this position, he made the ac<|uaintance of Doctor S. Berry as Judge of Probate when the latter became 



A. S. W.\LI,A('K. 



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MKX OF PROGRESS. 



Governor in 1861. Judge Westgate retired from J. Bean of Limington, Maine, who died January 28, 

office in 1871 at the age of seventy. He also held 1894. fie has tviro daughters: Louise Bean, and 

many offices in Enfield and Haverhill, and was Elsie May Westgate. 
elected to the Legislature after his retirement from 



office. He married 1,^ 



Tvler, a grand-daughter 




TYLER WtSlr.ATE. 

of Colonel Benjamin Tyler of W'allingford, Con- 
necticut. 'I'he subject of this sketch received his 
education at the Haverhill and Kimball I'nion 
(Meriden, New Hampshire) Academies, and was 
graduated from the latter in 1864. He was Assist- 
ant Clerk of the Supreme Court of Grafton county 
from April 1 1, 1865, to April i, 1871, and was I^eg- 
isterof Probate of the county from August 7, 1871. 
to July, 1874, and again from August, 1876, to 
June, 1879. In iS76-'77 he was Clerk of the New 
Hampshire Senate. He was Postmaster at Haver- 
hill from 1881 to 1885, and was again made Regis- 
ter of Probate in July, 1889. holding the office 
until 1S90, when he was made Judge of l^robate, 
which he still holds. He is one of the most popu- 
lar men ever elected to the office. He has always 
been most active in all movements for the improve- 
ment of the town or county. 'In politics he is an 
ardent l-lepublican, and is influential in shaping the 
party's course in the county. Judge Westgate 
married August 30, 1881, Lucretia M. Sawyer of 
Malone, New York, who died January 16, 1884, 
leaving no issue. lie was again married to Piiabe 



WOODISURV. Levi, Hotel Proprietor, Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia, was born in Salem, 
New Hampshire, October 17. 1834, son of Israel 
and Eliza (Graham) Woodbury. He comes of an 
ancestry of honorable distinction in the state of 
New Hampshire, his grandfather, Israel, having 
enlisted in the Revolutionary ,\rniy at seventeen 
years of age, having a military career of seven 
years, and subsequently serving the state in civil 
capacity in its Legislature for thirty-one consecu- 
tive years. He lived to be ninet3'-nine years and 
ten months old, with all his senses unimpaired. 
Mr. Woodbury's early life was passed upon his 
father's farm, and his education was obtained in 
the public schools of his native town. In i860 he 
entered the employ of the Manchester & Law- 
rence Railroad, as station agent at Windham, New 
Hampshire, remaining there eight years. During 
this time he also engaged in the lumber business, 
at which he was very- successful. In 1S69, having 




LEVI WOODliUkV. 

disposed of his New Hampshire business, he went 
to Washington, District of Columbia, and engaged 
in the hotel business, since which his fame as a 
successful hotel man has extended to all parts of 
the country. Mr. Woodbury is also identified with 



MEN OF TROGRESS. 



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many interests for the benefit of the city. He is 
President of the new line of steamboats to Old 
Point Comfort and Norfolk, and is a Director of 
the Central National Bank, and largely interested 
in Washington real estate. He is a man of affairs 
who conducts whatever he undertakes with ability, 
and to a successful issue. That he has not lost 
interest in early associations, and in his native 
state, is evidenced by the fact tiiat he has pur- 
chased the old homestead at Salem, New Hamp- 
shire, and makes this one of his outing places 
during the summer. He is a Mason and a Knights 
Templar, a member of Blue Lodge, No. 4, of I )erry. 
In politics he is a Democrat. He married Mary J., 
daughter of David and Sarah Wheeler of Atkinson, 
New Hampshire. 



AlUJO'l'T, Ai.FRiCD Wells, l^hysician, Laconia, 
was born in Concord, New Hampsiiiie, May 7, 
1842, son of .Mfred C. and Judith (Earnham) 
Abbott. He studied medicine with S. S. Emery, 
M. !)., at Fisherville, and graduated with honor 
at Dartmouth Medical College in 1868. He com- 
menced the practice of his profession at Law- 
rence, Kansas, and practiced in that state for a 
short time, wlicn he returned to New Hampshire, 
locating at Suncook, where he remauied until July, 
1870, when he removed to Sanbornton, New 
Hampshire, where he practiced until iSSo. Dur- 
ing his ten years of active practice in that and 
adjoining towns, he gained a host of friends and 
acquired a lucrative practice. Runnells's " History 
of Sanbornton," published while lie was residing in 
that town, says of him : " He has won much esteem 
for his social qualities, and as a well-read, scientific 
physician enjoying an extensive practice in this 
and neighboring towns." In 1880 he came to 
Laconia. Here, preceded by his reputation for 
his skill and knowledge, he made rapid strides in 
his profession, and to-day he occupies an assured 
position among the leading practitioners of this 
section of New Hampshire. His practice is large 
and lucrative, he has acquired a competency, and 
is considered one of Laconia's best financiers. He 
has long been a Director of the Belknap Savings 
Bank; he was the first Vice-President of the Win- 
nipiseogee Academy of Medicine, and its second 
President, which position he now holds. He has 
been President of the Citizens' Telephone Com- 
pany, of Laconia, since its organization in July, 
1896. Besides acquiring an extensive and lucra- 
tive practice, he has won a wide reputation as an 



able physician. In his political affiliations Doctor 
Abbott is a staunch Republican, but has never 
sought political preferments, having steadfastly 
refused official positions, though often importuned 
by his political friends to accept positions of honor 
and trust. He is distinctively a professional man, 
and devotes his whole time to the calling which 
he loves so well. He was married December 30, 
1S69, to Julia Ann Clay of Manchester, New 
Hampshire, by whom he has liad three children : 
Clifton Smith, born January 16, 187 i. a graduate 
of the Dartmouth Medical College in the class of 



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Young Doctor Abbott is in partnership 



with his father, and has gained an enviable reputa- 




A. w. Aia;iJi'r. 

tion as a learned and skilful physician. Like his 
father, his whole time is given to his profession. 
He was born and bred, as it were, to the profession 
in which he is now engaged. Blanche Newall was 
born April 10, 1872, and is a young lady of many 
accomplishments, and a teacher in our public 
schools; Carl Benning Abbott was born August 
29, 1877, and died, March, 1888. 



ALBIN, John Hknrv, Lawyer, Concord, was 
born in West Randolph, Vermont, October 17, 
1843, SO" of John and Emily (White) Albin. He 
prepared for college in the High School of Con- 
cord; entered Dartmouth, and was graduated in 



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the class of 1864. In October, 1867, he was 
admitted to the ]5ar, and in April, 1868, became a 
partner of Judge Eastman and Samuel B. Page. 
The firm was a very strong one, and did a very 
extensive business. It was dissolved, by mutual 
consent, in 1874. Mr. Albin ne.xt formed a part- 
nership with Mason \V. 'I'appan, who became 
Attorney-General of New Hampshire, a position 
which he huld with great honor and abilitv until 




J. H. AI.IilN'. 

his death. Afterward, Mr. .\lbin and Xalhauiel K. 
Martin were in business together. In 1875, Mr. 
.Albin became a resident of Henniker, representing 
that town in the Legislature of 1876, serving on 
important committees and being one of the leading 
and most influential members. He subsequently 
returned to Concord, as a place of residence, and 
was a Representative from Ward 5 in that city to 
the Legislature in 1872 and 1873, being an acknowl- 
edged leader upon the floor of the House. He is 
the President of the Sullivan ('ounty Railroad, and 
also of the Concord Street Railway, in which latter 
corporation he is the principal owner. He is a 
Director in the Connecticut River Railroad, also in 
the Vermont Valley Railroad. He is an Odd Fel- 
low of high rank and wide celebrity, having held 
all the official positions in the (irand Lodge, being 
Grand Master in 1879 and 1881 and again in 1882. 
He represented the state in the Sovereign Grand 



Lodge at its sessions in Cincinnati and IJaltimore. 
In politics he is a prominent Republican, closely 
identified with the organization and management 
of the' party. As a legal adviser and advocate, 
Mr. Albin is one of the foremost in the state, and 
in the conduct of important causes in court, fre- 
quently involving large corporate interests, he has 
been especially successful, and as a defender in 
several noted criminal trials he won distinction. 
His indomitable industry and tireless zeal have 
made him almost invaluable in local affairs, and in 
the shaping of legislation and the conduct of muni- 
cipal government, his work has been comprehen- 
sive in detail and important in results. His e.vten- 
sive experience, and clean-cut, quiet, and effective 
way of accomplishing desired ends have made him 
a conspicuous, honored and respected member of 
the community in which he makes his home. He 
was married, September 5, 1872, to Miss Georgia 
A. Modica, an accomplished lady of prepossessing 
personality and marked social attainments. They 
have two children, a son and daughter, Henry A. 
and Edith G. Albin. 



B.-\KKR, Henry Mooke, Lawyer and Ex-Con- 
gressnian, How, was born in tliat town, January 11, 
1841, son of Aaron W'hittemore and Nancy (Dustin) 
ISaker. He conies of patriotic and heroic ancestry. 
His great-great-grandfather, Captain Joseph Baker, 
a colonial surveyor, married Hannah, onlv daugh- 
ter of Captain John Lovewell, the famous Indian 
fighter who was killed in the battle of Pigwacket, 
May 8, 1725. A few years later the township of 
Suncook or Lovewell's Town was granted by Mas- 
sachusetts to the survivors and the heirs of those 
killed in that battle. This township included 
much of what is now Pembroke, but as its boun- 
daries conllicted with those of the town of Bow, 
chartered May 10, 1727, by Governor Wenlworth 
of New Hampshire, the grantees never received the 
full benefits intended for them. The contention 
resulting from these different grants was terminated 
December 13, 1804, when that part of Bow east of 
the Merrimack river was annexed to Pembroke and 
Concord. Captain Baker's son, Joseph, married a 
descendant of the Scotch Covenanters and set- 
tled in Bow. The acres he cleared and cultivated 
are now a part of the family homestead. He was 
a soldier in the Revolution and a man of energy 
and infiuence. His son, James, married a grand- 
daughter of Reverend Aaron W'hittemore, the first 
clergyman in Pembroke. Their eldest son, Aaron 



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Whittemore Baker, married Nancy Dustin. He 
was only twelve years old when his father died 
from injuries accidentally received, hut notwitii- 
standing his tender years, the boy resolutely met the 
responsibilities he could not escape, and through 
his endeavors and his mother's aid, the younger 
children were well educated and the farm was 
successfully cultivated. He was of sterling integ- 
rity, of advanced thought, a bitter opponent nf slav- 
ery, and an ardent advocate of temperance and in 
everything earnest of purpose. His wife was of 
high character, sweet disposition, great talent, and 
generally beloved. She was a descendant of the 
colonial heroine, Hannah Dustin. Walter liryant, 
a relative on the maternal side of the subject of 
this sketch, was prominent in colonial affairs, and 
surveyed many of the townships and the eastern 
boundary of the state. Henry M. Baker was the 
youngest son of Aaron Whittemore Baker. He at- 
tended the common schools of his native town, the 
academies of Pembroke and Hopkinton, the New 
Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton, and 
was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1863. 
He received the degree of Master of .\rts three 
years later. Upon his graduation he began the 
study of law under the direction of Judge JNIinot of 
Concord. He was appointed Clerk in the War 
Department of Washington, District of Columbia, 
in 1S64, and was transferred to the Treasury De- 
partment, where he remained in different positions 
of trust and responsibility for several years. Mean- 
while he had continued his law studies, having en- 
tered the Law Department of the Columbian Uni- 
versity, where he was grailuated in 18G6, and was 
admitted to the Ear of the Supreme Court of the 
District of Columbia. In 1882 he was admitted to 
practice in the Supreme Court of the Lhiited States. 
He practiced law for several )'ears at Washington, 
where he soon obtained a large clientage and was 
engaged in many important cases. The sons of 
the Granite State are noted for their love of home 
and for attachment to the hills, valleys, lakes and 
rivers which make that state so picturesque and 
beautiful. Wherever they roam or however long 
absent, they turn with loving devotion to the old 
homesteads and greet with equal joy old friends 
and accustomed scenes. Mr. liaker, though neces- 
sarily absent much of the time for several years, has 
never ceased to be a resident of his native town, 
and no year has passed without his return to the 
old home to mingle with his neighbors and friends 
and enjoy its pure air and beautiful scenery. He 



has always been an aggressive Republican, and an 
active campaigner. No son of New Hampshire is 
more zealous of her good name and higii standing 
than Mr. Baker. He has been earnest in the advo- 
cacy of state aid to her institutions of learning and 
of charity, to her public libraries and the preserva- 
tion of historical records and objects of patriotic 
interest. In i886-'87, Mr. Baker was Judge .-Vdvo- 
cate Ceneral of our National Guard with the rank 
of Brigadier-General. He was noiuinated in the 
Merrimack District by acclamation as candidate of 
his party for the State Senate in 1890, and ran 
largely ahead of his ticket. While in his district 
the Republican candidate for Governor had a plu- 
rality of only seventy-si.\ votes he received a plural- 
ity of one hundred and fifty and a majority of 
seventy-five votes. By his energetic and success- 
ful canvass he contributed greatly to the general 
success of his party, and its control of the Legisla- 
ture that vear was largelv due to him. In the Sen- 




H. M. n.VKEK. 

ate he was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 
and a member of several other important commit- 
tees as well as Chairman of its joint special com- 
mittee on the revision, codification and amendment 
of the Public Statutes. He took an active part in 
all proceedings of the Senate, and became recog- 
nized as a Republican leader. He was elected 
Representative in ('ongress from the Second Dis- 
trict by a good plurality in 1892, reversing the 



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Democratic victory in the preceding election. In 
1894 he was re-elected by a plurality more than 
fourteen times greater than that of 1892, but was not 
again a candidate for re-election. In the Fifty- 
third Congress he was assigned to the Committees 
on Agriculture and Militia. In the next Congress 
he was a member of the Committees on Judiciary 
and Election of President, Vice-President and Rep- 
resentatives in Congress. He was Chairman of 
one of the Standing Sub-Committees of the Judi- 
ciary Committee. His principal speeches in Con- 
gress were in opposition to the repeal of the Fed- 
eral Election Laws, on the Methods of Accounting 
in the Treasury Department, in favor of the pur- 
chase and distribution to the farmers of the coun- 
try of rare and valuable agricultural and horticul- 
tural seeds, on the Tariff, on Protection not Hos- 
tile to Exportation, ou the Necessity of Adec|uate 
Coast Defence, on the Criminal Jurisdiction of the 
United States Supreme Court, and on Ci\il Ser\ice 
Reform. He is still an active campaigner and is 
heard frequently upon the stump. He is a mem- 
ber of the New Hampshire Club, a Mason, a 
Rnights Templar, and a Noble of the Mystic 
Shrine. He is a member of the New Hampshire 
Historicnl Society, to whiih he h.itl iiuule \alu.ible 
contributions, and has established prizes in Dart- 
mouth College. In religion he is a Unitarian. 
Since his retirement from Congress, Mr. Raker has 
been engaged in the advocacy of public reforms 
and improvements, and superintending his varied 
private investments. In these he linds sufficient 
and congenial occupation. Mr. Raker is unmar- 
ried. John P.. Raker of Row, a member of the 
Legislature of 1897, is his only surviving brother. 



RAKER, Elkazer, Grocer, Simcook, was born in 
Rrewster, Massachusetts, November 2, 1838, sou 
of Joshua G. and Margaret (Small) Raker. He is 
of English descent, tracing his ancestry back to the 
fourteenth century. He attended the public Schools 
of his native town until he was twelve years of age, 
when he left home and started out to make his own 
way in the world. He went to sea and followed 
this career until the breaking out of the Civil War. 
In April, 1861, in response to President Lincoln's 
call for volunteers, he enlisted for a year. He was 
assigned to duty as a petty officer on the gunboat 
Massachusetts. Receiving an honorable discharge 
at the Rrooklyn Navy Yard at the expiration of his 
term of enlistment, he was engaged on the steamer 
Young America, in transporting troops and provi- 



sions from Fortress Monroe up the Pamimkeg river 
to Whitehouse Landing. In May, 1868, Mr. Raker 
went to Suncook, in the town of Pembroke, and 
established a grocery and meat business, and by 
industry and perseverance has built up a large and 




lucrative trade. He is one of Pembroke's most 
influential and public-spirited citizens, and every 
good work has his hearty and substantial support. 
Though he never sought public office, he was elected 
to the Legislature in iS85-'S6. He is a Trustee of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is 
a strong and most active Republican. Mr. Raker 
was married November 16, 1862, to Hannah Jane 
\icker.son of South Dennis, Massachusetts. Si-\ 
cliiklren have been born to them : Eleazer Frank- 
lin, born September 8, 1863 ; Josiah Frederick, 
born December 31, 1866; Alice Cleal, born Janu- 
ary 20, 1870, who died January. 1873 ; Nellie Jane, 
born December 20, 1875 ; and Edilh May and Eva 
Louise Raker (twins), born September 8, :8So. 



PARTLETT, Gkorge Ansei,, Disbursing Clerk 
of the United States Treasury Department, Wash- 
ington, District of Colinnbia, was born in Kings- 
ton, New Hampshire, April 23, 1841, son of 
Richard and Sally (I-'ellows) Bartlett. His ancestry 
on the paternal side dates back to William the 
Conqueror, and on the maternal side his ancestors 
were prominent in New Hampshire affairs ; his 



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uncle, Moses Fellows, being the first Maj'or of 
Manchester, New Hampshire. His grandmother 
Bartlett's father, Aaron Young, was an officer in the 
RevoUitionar)' War. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools and in Kingston Academy. W hen he 
was si.\teen years of age, Mr. ]Jartlett left home to 
go to Lawrence, Massachusetts, as an apprentice 
of E. W. Colcord, who had gone there from Kings- 
ton, and engaged in the manufacture of leather 
belting. .Vt the breaking out of the war he enlisted 
for three years in Company " K,'" of the F'ourteenth 
Massachusetts Infantry, on May 20, 1861. He 
participated in all the battles of the Regiment, 
being recommended for promotion for bravery on 
two occasions, but declined promotion, preferring, 
as he e.xpressed it, " to stay with the boys." In 
i866, he removed to Washington where he entered 
the Paymaster General's office. Two years later 
he resigned, but in 1S71 again entered the govern- 
ment service as a clerk in ihe Treasury Depart- 
ment. He was soon appointed to An eighteen 
hundred dollar clerkship, and in iSSi was ap- 
piiinted bv Secrelav\' Windcmi to llie responsible 




i;kij. a. i;ai; 1 i.Kii'. 

position of Disbursing Clerk in the I'nited .States 
Treasury Department, which position he still holds. 
Mr. Bartlett is one of the best known New Hamp- 
shire people in Washington, paying out some si.x 
million dollars yearly. He is always actively in- 
terested in all gatherings of New Hampshire people 



in Washington. He is a member of \arious veteran 
organizations, and was I'resident of the Union 
Soldiers' Alliance in 18S9. He is a Thirty-second 
degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, 
and has always been very prominent in Masonry. 
He is a member of the Lafayette Lodge, No. 19. 
Mt. Vernon Chapter, No. 3, Royal Arch Masons, 
Washington Commandery, No. i. Knights Templar, 
and Almas Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles 
of the Mystic Shrine. He takes a great interest in 
the District of Columbia , Militia, organized the 
Treasury Guards, and holds the rank of Major of 
the department battalion. 



LATCHELDER, Ai.ikKn Tra.sk, Ex-ALiyor of 
Keene and successful Lawyer and man of affairs, 
was born in Sunapee, New Hampshire, February 
26, 1844, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Trask) 
FJatchelder. On the paternal side he is descended 
in the eighth generation from John Batchelder, 
who came to this country from England and 
settled in ]!everly, Massachusetts. His great- 
grandfather in this line was commander of a ship 
in the '50's of the last century in the days when 
IJeverly was a llourishing seaport, and made many 
successful voyages. His son Zachariah, the grand- 
father of the subject of this skelch, settled in 
Sunapee, where he engaged in business, and where 
his son Nathaniel became one of the best known 
farmers of the town and one of its most inlhien- 
lial residents. Though not a man of more than 
moderate means Nathaniel ISatchelder gave his 
children a liberal education. His son attended the 
district schools of Sunapee and New London 
Academy, and entering Dartmouth College was 
graduated in 1871. He studied law in Clareniont 
with Judge W. H. H. Allen and Ira Colby, being 
associated in practice with the latter after his 
admission to the ISar in September, 1873. llpon 
his removal to Keene in 1877, Mr. iiatchelder 
became a partner of Francis A. Faulkner and his 
son, Francis C. Faulkner, the firm name being 
F'aulkner & Iiatchelder. Francis A. Faulkner 
died May 22, 1879, since which time Mr. Iiatchel- 
der and his son have continued the business, 
which has been highly successful. In spite of his 
professional duties Mr. Iiatchelder has found time 
to engage in many imjiortant enterprises. .Among 
the positions of trust he has held are l^resident of 
the Cheshire Provident Institution for Savings ; of 
the Impervious Packing Company; of the C. li. 
Lancaster .Shoe Company, and of the Stoddard 



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Lumber Company, Sflling out his interest in the 
last named in 1.S97 ; and Director in the Emerson 
Paper Company of Sunapee, in the Ashuelot and 
Keene National lianks. He succeeded Judge Allen 
as Register of liankriiptcy under the National Bank- 




A. T. HATCH KI.DEK. 

rupt law; and from 1879 till the consolidation of 
the Cheshire Railroad with the Fitchburg system 
he was its general attorney. In politics Mr. 
Batchelder is a Republican ; and he has been 
active in the support of the party, serving as 
Mayor of Keene in i885-'86. He was a member 
of the New Hampshire Legislature in 1897, and 
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the 
House. In religion he is an Episcopalian. He is 
prominent in Masonry, and is a member of the 
Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights Templar. 
Mr. Batchelder married, .April 24, 1879, Alice H., 
daughter of Peter li. and M.iry H. Hayward of 
Keene. He has two sons. 



BENEDICT, Frank Lee, Physician, Portsmouth, 
was born in New Marlboro, Massachusetts, Septem- 
ber 13, 1855, son of Benjamin and Ursula (Niver) 
Benedict. In the paternal line Doctor Benedict 
traces his descent from French stock, the family in 
America being descended from Thomas Benedict, 
who came over from England in 1700, and settled in 
Huntington, Long Island. Among Thomas Bene- 
dict's descendants were the founders of Danbury, 



Connecticut. Frank Lee Benedict is in the eighth 
generation from Thomas. On the maternal side he 
is descended from ancestors who came from Holland 
and settled in Columbia county. New York. For 
two or three generations back on both father's and 
mother's side, the family were engaged in farming. 
Doctor Benedict attended the common schools in 
Massachusetts; the Great Barrington High School, 
i87o-'72 ; Claverick (New York) College, Hudson 
River Institute, i872-'7s ; the New York Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College, New York city, i876-'79, 
being graduated in April of the last year. Early 
in May of 1879 he settled in Portsmouth, and 
began the practice of his profession, and has since 
been as busy and successful as a medical man 
generally is. He was Pension Examiner from 
1893 to 1897, but has never sought political offices 
or taken a very active part in politics. He is a 
member of St. Andrew's Lodge, Free and Accepted 
Masons, DeW'itt Clinton Commandery, and Os- 
good Lodge of Odd Fellows, all of Portsmouth. 
He is a member of \\'arwick Club, of which he was 
President in 1S95 ; the Piscataqua Yacht Club, and 




F. L. BENEDICT. 

the New Hampshire Homceopathic Medical Society. 
Doctor Benedict was married, December 20, 1888, 
to Katheryne Hinckley Hamlin, the ceremony tak- 
ing place in the Church of the Transfiguration, by 
Rev. Doctor Houghton, New York city. 



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BINGHAM, Edward Franklin, Chief Justice 
of tile Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, 
born at West Concord, Vermont, August 13, 1828, 
son of Warner and Lucy (Wheeler) liingham, is a 
descendant of Thomas Bingham, who emigrated 
from .Sheffield, England, and settled in Norwich, 
Connecticut, in 1659. He is a brother of the 
Hon. Harry Bingham, an eminent lawyer and Dem- 
ocratic leader, and the late Judge George A. Bing- 
ham, a prominent lawyer and E.x-Judge of the 
Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Edward F. 
Bingham received his early education at the public 
and select schools of Vermont, and later at the 
Academy of Peacham, Vermont, one of the oldest 
and best endowed institutions of that state at that 
time. In 1846 he determined to make Ohio his 
future home, and after spending a brief period at 
Marietta College, read law with his brother, Harry, 
at Littleton, concluding his law studies under the 
late Judge Joseph Miller, at Chillicothe, Ohio. He 
was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of 
that state in May, 1850, the late Chief Justice 
Hitchcock presiding. On June i, 1S50, he opened 
a law office at Mc.Vrthur, the county-seat of the 
newly created county of Vinton. Although a total 
stranger he soon found warm friends and built up 
a large practice. The following November he was 
appointed Prosecuting Attorney of Vinton county, 
and in 185 1 he was elected for a term of two years, 
and re-elected in 1853, serving five years. He was 
a member of the Legislature in 1856 and 1857. 
Although strongly urged to accept a re-nomination 
to the Legislature, he declined, desiring to devote 
himself to his law practice. In 185S he was given 
the unanimous nomination by the Democratic party 
for the office of Judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas for the second sub-division of the Judicial 
District composed of the counties of Vinton, Jack- 
son, Scioto, Pike, and Lawrence. His party then 
being the minority in that sub-division, he was 
defeated by a small margin. In 1859 he again 
declined a nomination as candidate for the Legis- 
lature. He was a Delegate from the Eleventh 
Congressional District of Ohio, in 1S60, to the 
Democratic National Convention, held first at 
Charleston, South Carolina, and by adjournment 
at Baltimore. In January, 1861, he removed to 
Columbus, Ohio, where he resided until his re- 
moval to Washington, District of Columbia. In 
1868 Judge Bingham became Chairman of the 
State Democratic Executive Committee, and so 
discharged the duties of that office in the impor- 



tant campaign of that year as to receive the gen- 
eral commendation of his party, but because of its 
interference with his professional duties, he de- 
clined further service. From 1S67 to 187 i he was 
by election City Solicitor of Columbus, Ohio. He 



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served as a member of the Board of Education 
from 1S63 to 1868, and was re-elected in 1872. 
In March, 1873, he was elected, without opposi- 
tion. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the 
Fifth Judicial district, and was thrice elected, each 
term being for five years. At each election he 
met with no opposition. He was a Delegate to 
the Democratic National Convention at .St. Louis, 
in 1876, which nominated Samuel J. Tilden 
for President. He was nominated by the Ohio 
Democratic State Convention in 1881, as a candi- 
date for Supreme Judge of the .State of Ohio, but 
with the rest of the ticket was defeated. April 25, 
1887, while occupying a place on the Ohio Com- 
mon Pleas bench, he was appointed by President 
Cleveland Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
the District of Columbia. Judge Bingham has 
ranked very high as a lawyer. In Ohio he was 
among the foremost members of the State Bar. 
He is earnest and forcible, industrious and thor- 
ougii. On the bench his success is even more 
pronounced than it was as a lawyer, and on and 
off the bench he is (.[uict and unassuming, cul- 



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tilled, and luunano. It may be said of him that 
few of his decisions iiave ever been reversed by 
higher courts. Judge Hinghani was married, No- 
vember 2 1, 1S50, to Susannah F. Gunning of F'ay- 
ette county, Ohio, who died in iS86, leaving two 
sons and two daughters. The Judge married, 
August 8, 1888, Mrs. L. C. Patton, daughter of tiie 
late United States Senator Allen T. Carpenter of 
West Virginia. 



BINGHAM, H,\Kuv, Littleton, for fifty years a 
leader of the New Hampshire Bar, was born in 
Concord, Vermont, March 30, 182 i, son of Warner 
and Lucy (Wheeler) liingham. He is descended 
in the eighth generation from Thomas Bingham, 
who was admitted to membership in the Cutler's 




HARRV r.INGHA.M. 

Companyof Sheffield, England, December 21, 161.), 
as a master cutler. Thomas Bingham, 3d, the 
first of the family to come to America, was one 
of the lirst landed proprietors of Norwich, Con- 
necticut, and died in Windiiam in 1693. War- 
ner Bingham, who was born in Cornish in 1789, 
was a State Senator, 1842 and 1843, and Assist- 
ant Judge of Essex county, Vermont, in 1844. 
He died in ]>ethlehem, February 12, 1872. His 
son Harry attended tlie common schools of his 
native town, was fitted for college in Lyndon (Ver- 
mont) Academy, was graduated from Dartmouth in 



1843 and began the study of the law with the Hon. 
David Hibbard at Concord, Vermont, continuing 
with Geo. C. and Edward Cahoon at Lyndonville, 
and completing his studies with Hon. Harry Hib- 
bard in Bath. He was admitted to the liar in 
1846, and at once began practice in Littleton. 
From 1852 to 1859 he was a member of the law 
firm of H. & G. A. Bingham, and since that date 
he has been a member of Woods ..V Bingham, 1859 
to 1862; H. tV G. A. Bingham, 1862 to 1870; 
Bingham iV Mitchell, 1874 to 1879 ; Bingham, 
Mitchell &: Batchellor, 1879 to 1882 ; Bingham, 
Mitchells & Batchellor, 1882 to 1885, since which 
date the firm has been Bingham, Mitchell & 
Batchellor. Mr. Bingham's practice has been 
extremely large — his briefs in cases argued in the 
law terms of the Supreme Court are contained in 
ever)' volume of the New Hampshire Reports from 
the twentieth (fifty volumes) — but in his later years 
he has been less active in his professional work, 
having given his time more and more largely to 
recreation, travel, and literature. In 1880, Dart- 
mouth College conferred upon him the degree of 
LL. D. Mr. Bingham has been a life-long Demo- 
crat, and one of New Hampshire's most distin- 
guished e.xponents of the principles of the party. 
He was elected to the House of Representatives in 
1861, and was re-elected in 1862, when he was a 
candidate for Speaker, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1868, 
1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 
1879, 1881, 1889, and 1891 ; and he was a State 
Senator for two terms, 1883-1887. He was a 
member of the Constitutional Convention of 1S76. 
During his legislative service he was always a 
member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and in 

1871 and 1874, the years of Democratic supremacy, 
he was its Chairman. In 1865, he was the candi- 
date of his party for Congress against James W. 
Patterson, and in 1867 against Jacob Benton. In 
1867, he was United States Treasury Agent, under 
President Johnson. He was the Democratic can- 
didate for I'nited States Senator against Aaron H. 
Cragin in 1870; against Bainbridge Wadleigh in 

1872 ; against Henry W. Blair in 1S79 and 1885 ; 
against Austin I'". Pike in 1883, and against Wil- 
liam E. Chandler in 1887 and 1889. Governor 
Weston named him for Chief Justice in 1874, but 
he was defeated by a division in the council; and in 
1S80 he declined an appointment as Justice of the 
.Supreme Court, tendered by Governor Head. Mr. 
Bingham was a delegate to the Philadelphia Peace 
Convention of 1SG6. Two years later he attended 



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the National Convention, which nominated Horatio 
Seymour for President, on which occasion he acted 
as proxy for the Hon. Josiah Minot of Concord, 
member of the National Committee, and was him- 
self chosen the member of that committee from the 
state, holding the post until 1872. He was a del- 
egate to the Baltimore Convention of 1872 which 
nominated Horace Greeley, the Cincinnati Conven- 
tion of 1880 which nominated General Hancock, 
and the Chicago conventions of 1SS4 and 1892 
which nominated Grover Cleveland. In all these 
conventions he was a member of the Committee on 
Resolutions. He was on the electoral ticket in 
1864 and 1888, and in 189G was a candidate for 
Elector on the National Democratic ticket. He 
presided over the State Conventions of 1870, 1S72, 
1878, and 1S96. In his younger days Mr. liing- 
ham was connected with the militia, serving as 
(,)uartermaster of the Thirty-second Regiment in 
1S49, and as Aide-de-camp on the brigade staff of 
General E. O. Kenney in 1851. He is a member 
of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Dartnumth Greek Letter 
Society, the Granite State Club (political) and the 
Pilgrim Society. In i886-'88, he was a Director of 
the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad. Since 
1893 he has been President of the Grafton and 
Coos Bar Association. Many of his legal argu- 
ments have been published in full in newspapers 
and pamphlets ; and he has been the author of 
numerous addresses and essays on more general 
topics, covering a wide range. Among the more 
important titles are : " Centennial Address," deliv- 
ered at Littleton, July 4, 1876; "Memorial Day 
Address," Littleton, May, 1880; " Andrew Salter 
Woods," a memorial address, Dartmouth College, 
June 23, 1880; ''Certain Conditions and Tenden- 
cies that Imperil the Integrity and Independence 
of the Judiciary," before the Grafton and Coos Bar 
Association, 1882; "The Political Situation," 
Manchester LTnion, February 14, 1883; "The Life 
and Democracy of John H. George," before the 
Granite State Club, June 27, 1888; "The Issues 
at Stake" (a reply to William E. Chandler), River- 
side Magazine, 1890; "Gilman Marston," "Na- 
thaniel W. Westgate," " William S. Ladd," " The 
Muniments of Constitutional Liberty," " Progress 
in Asiatic Civilization and its Significance for the 
Western World," addresses before the Grafton and 
Coos Bar Association, i89i-'9s ; "The Rights and 
Responsibilities of the United States in Reference 
to the International Relations of the Great Powers 
of Europe and the Lesser Republic of America," 



before Marshal Sanders Post, Grand Army of the 
Republic, Littleton, December 26, 1895; "The 
Welfare of the Republic the Supreme Law," before 
the Crrafton and Coos Bar Association, 1896 ; "The 
Present Duty of Democracy," before a ratification 
meeting of the National Democracy, Manchester, 
1896; "The Relations of Woman to the Progres- 
sive Civilization of tlie Age," 1897; "The Influ- 
ence of Religion on Human Progress," annual 
address before the New Hampshire Historical 
Society, June 8, 1897 ; "The Annexation of Ha- 
waii : a Right and a Duty." 



BOWKER, Ciiari.es Harvey, Physician, Berlin, 
was born in Lisbon, New Hampshire, March 20, 
1870, son of Mitchell H. and Laura P. (Brooks) 




C. II. IlLiWkKK. 

Bowker. On the paternal side his ancestry is traced 
back to Edmund Bowker, who settled in Dorchester, 
Massachusetts, in 1646, being one of three brothers 
who are supposed to have come from Sweden. 
There were Bowkers who served in the French and 
Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 
181 2. Gideon Bowker, great-great-grandfather of the 
subject of this sketch, who served from the battle of 
Bunker Hill to tlie close of the Revolution, was one 
of the founders of Lunenburg, Vermont. Mitchell 
H. Bowker was a merchant of Whitefield, and was 
a member of Ginernor lUisiel's Council, being the 



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first Republican Councillor elected from the fifth 
district. On his mother's side Dr. Bowker traces 
his descent from Simeon Brooks, one of the grantees 
of Alstead, New Hampshire, — his maternal grand- 
mother was a Bradford, direct descendant from 
Governor Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. 
Charles H. Bowker attended the public schools 
and the High School at Lisbon, and New Hampton 
Academy. He passed through the freshman year, 
at New York Homctopathic College, spending the 
following years of a medical course at Hahnemann 
College of Philadelphia, being graduated in 1892. 
He then took a special course at the New York 
Post Graduate College in mental and nervous dis- 
eases and in study of Old School Therapeutics at 
the University of New York. He also held the 
position of Resident Surgeon at Ward's Island 
Hospital (now the Metropolitan Hospital) of si.x 
hundred beds, one of the Charities and Correc- 
tions Institutions of New York city, a position he 
obtained through a compelilive examination. For 
a year he was in practice with Doctor George Mor- 
rison of Whitefield, and for a time he owned the 
VVhitefield Publishing Company issuing the \\'hite- 
field Times. Since this was made a stock com- 
pany he has been its heaviest owner. He owns the 
Berlin Pharmacy, which was established in 1896. 
He was active in founding the Androscoggin Hos- 
pital (of twenty-six beds) in 1894, and has been 
Attending Surgeon since that time. He is at pres- 
ent Secretary-Treasurer, and member of the Execu- 
tive Committee; was Health Officer of Berlin in 
1895 and 1896, and was instrumental in securing 
the present effective filter system adopted for the 
water supply of the town. He is Physician to the 
Independent Order of Foresters, Ancient Order 
of United Workmen, Knights of the Maccabees, 
Knights of the Golden Cross, Knights of Honor, 
American Benefit Society, and Pilgrim Fathers. He 
is local Surgeon for the Boston & Maine Railroad, 
and Surgeon to the City Fire Department. He is 
President of the Berlin Co-operative Store Com- 
pany. In 1890 he was Health Officer in White- 
field and in 1S95 and 1896, as has been stated, he 
held a similar position in Berlin. He is a Justice 
of the Peace and a member of the Republican 
Ward Committee. He is a Republican and active 
in local politics. He is a Mason, a member of the 
North Star Commandery of Kniglits Templar, a 
Past (;rand of ( )dd l''ellows, and a member of 
Encampment and Canton. He is a member of the 
Maynesboro Club, Cowasse Club, and of the Sons 



of American Revolution. Mr. Bowker married 
September 24, 1891, Bertha C. Libbey, daughter 
of the Hon. G. W. Libbey of Whitefield. 



BUFFUM, C.M.Ki! Talbot, was born in Royals- 
ton, Massachusetts, June 4, 1820, son of James 
and Ruth (Bliss) Buffum. He is of English de- 
scent, his ancestors having emigrated from England 
about the year 1638, and settled in Rhode Island. 
Caleb Piuffum and Nathan Bliss, grandfathers of 
the subject of this sketch, settled, the first named 
in Richmond, New Hampshire, and the latter in 
Royalston, Massachusetts, and Ijoth were tillers of 
the soil. Nathan Bliss also served with credit as a 




C. T. HUFKUM. 

soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Buffum 
gained his early education in the common schools, 
with three terms at Keene Academy. He worked 
upon the farm until he was sixteen years of age, 
when he went to learn the tailor's trade with Dins- 
more, White & Lyon, a leading clothing and dry- 
goods house of Keene, with which he remained for 
four years. He was employed for a year as a 
journeyman, but in 1841 formed a partnership with 
Jonas Parker, under the firm name of Buffum iS: 
Parker, and for sixteen years did a successful busi- 
ness in the manufacture of clothing, and sale of 
men's furnishing goods, at wholesale and retail. 
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Keene, soon after engaging in the wholesale cloth- 
ing and furnishing business in Boston, the firm 
name being Sears, BuiTuni & Company. Failing 
health compelled Mr. JJuftum, in the fall of 1855, 
to sever his connection with this firm, and to seek 
a milder climate. He went to Florida, where he 
remained until the spring of 1S56. Returning, 
with renewed health, to the North, he soon after 
formed the firm of C. T. & G. B. Buffum, his part- 
ner being his brother, and continued in the cloth- 
ing and furnishing business until January, 187 1, 
when he retired from active business. As a busi- 
ness man he was energetic, far-seeing, sagacious, 
careful and conservative, combining shrewd com- 
mon sense and good judgment with a great finan- 
cial ability, and these same qualities have made 
him one of Keene's most influential residents. He 
has borne an honored part in the management of 
many of the city's most important enterprises. He 
was elected President of the Keene Five Cent Sav- 
ings Bank, in June, 187 i, and still holds that posi- 
tion. He has been a Director in the Ashuelot 
National Bank since 1875. For a number of years 
he was President of the Keene Humane Society, 
and he has held various other positions of trust 
and responsibility. Although a staunch Republi- 
can since the birth of the party, Mr. Buffum has 
never been an aspirant for political honors. He 
was a Representative from Keene in 1S59 and 
i860, and an Alderman from Ward Four for two 
years, but these ofifices comprise the list of those of 
a political nature which he has accepted. Since 
his retirement from active business, he has traveled 
extensively throughout the United States, having 
passed several winters in Florida, and visited Cali- 
fornia and the Pacific Slope. One of his special 
characteristics is an enthusiastic love of nature, 
and he is an ardent disciple of Izaak Walton. He 
has an angler's retreat at Silver Lake (town of Har- 
risville), near Keene, which is open to his friends 
in summer time, and where he greatly enjoys his 
summer outings and the charms of camp life. He 
is a lover of birds, and something of a taxidermist, 
has a large collection of birds, minerals, etc., and 
has done something in the collecting of coins. He 
is a member of the Unitarian Society and of the 
Unitarian Club, and of the Keene Humane Society. 
Mr. Buffum was married April 19, 1843, to Susan 
R., daughter of Lewis Gilmore of Charlestown, 
New Hampshire. She died December 21, 1854, 
leaving one child : Ellen A. Bufifum, who died at 
the age of sixteen. He was again married Feb- 



ruary 23, 1857, to Sarah A., daughter of Asa Strat- 
ton of Greenfield, Massachusetts, the children of 
this marriage being Fred Lincoln, born November 
14, i860, died December 5, 1867, and Susie S. 
Buffum^ born April 19, 1865. 



CHANDLER, William Ea roN, United States 
Senator, Concord, was born in that city, December 
28, 1835, second son of Nathan S. and Mary Ann 
Chandler. He was educated in the public schools, 
and the academies at Thetford, Vermont, and Pem- 
broke, New Hampshire. He began his law studies 
in Concord, and attended the Harvard Law .School, 
being graduated with prize honors in 1S55. In the 




WM. E. CHANDLER. 

same year he was admitted to the liar; and for sev- 
eral years he practiced in Concord, where he made 
for himself a good name in his profession. In 1S59 
he was appointed Law Reporter of the New Hamp- 
shire Supreme Court, and published five volumes 
of Reports. Mr. Chandler was an earnest Republi- 
can, from the beginning of the party, and gave 
much of his time to the State Committee, serving 
first as its Secretary, and in 1864 and 1865 as its 
Chairman. He was elected to the Legislature in 
1862, 1863 and 1864, anil was twice elected 
Speaker. In November, 1S64, he was employed 
by the Navy Department as special counsel to pros- 
ecute the l'hil;\(K'l[ilii,\ navy yard frauds ; and on 



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MEN OF PROGRIvSS. 



March 9, 1865, was appointed the first Solicitor 
and Judge Advocate General of that department. 
On June 17 of the same )-ear, he became Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury, resigning the position 
November 30, 1S67. and resuming the practice 
of his profession. During the next thirteen years, 
he occupied no ofiicial position except that he was 
a member of the Constitutional Convention in 
1876, but he continued to take an active part in 
politics, being a Delegate to the Republican Na- 
tional Convention in 1868, and Secretary of the 
National Committee from that time until 1S76. In 
that year he advocated the claims of the Hayes 
electors in Florida before the canvassing board 
of the state and later, was one of the counsel to 
prepare the case submitted by the Republican side 
to the Electoral Commission in Washington. Mr. 
Chandler afterward became an especially out- 
spoken opponent of the southern policy of the 
Hayes administration. In 1880 he was a Delegate 
to the Republican National Convention, and served 
as a member of the Committee on Credentials, and 
was the author of the report in favor of district 
representation, which was adopted by the Conven- 
tion. During the subsequent campaign, he was a 
member of the National Committee. On March 23, 
1881, he was nominated by President Garfield for 
Ignited States Solicitor General, but was rejected by 
the Senate, the vote being nearly upon party lines. 
In June of that year he was again a member of 
the New Hampshire Legislature, where he favored 
stringent legislation against bribery at elections, 
and against the issue of free passes by railways, 
while he favored legal regulation of freight 
and fares on railways within the state. On 
April 7, 1882, he was appointed Secretary of 
the Navy. Among the important measures carried 
out by him while holding this office were the sim- 
plification and reduction of the unwieldy and ex- 
travagant navy yard establishment ; the limitation 
of the number of annual appointments of officers to 
the actual wants of the naval service; the discon- 
tinuance of the ruinous policy of repairing worth- 
less wooden vessels ; and the beginning of a mod- 
ern navy in the construction of the four steel 
cruisers recommended by the Advisory Board, the 
Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and Dolphin. The or- 
ganization and successful voyage of the Greelv 
relief expedition in 1884, commanded by Captain 
W. S. Schley, was largely due to his personal efforts. 
Mr. Chandler was a strenuous advocate of unitino- 
with the navy the other nautical branches of the 



Federal administration, including the lighthouse 
establishment, the coast survey and the revenue 
marine, upon the principle, first distinctly set forth 
by him, that "the officers and seamen of the Navy 
should be employed to perform all the work of the 
national government upon or in direct connection 
with the ocean." He served as Secretary until 
March 7, 18S5. He was elected to the United 
States Senate. June 14, 18S7, to fill the unexpired 
term of Austin F. Pike, which ended March 3, 
18S9; was re-elected June 18, i88g. and again 
January 16, 1895. His present term will expire 
March third, 1901. Mr. Chandler has been 
twice married, in 1859 to a daughter of Governor 
Joseph A. Gilniore. and in 1874, to a daughter of 
the Hon. John P. Hale. He has three sons by his 
first marriage, Joseph Gilmore, born in i860; Wil- 
liam Dwight, born in 1S63 ; and Lloyd Horwitz 
Chandler, now an officer in the Navy, born in 
1869 ; and one son by his second marriage, born in 
1885, John P. Hale Chandler. 



CHUTTER, Frederick Groroe, Dry-Goods 
Merchant, Littleton, was born in Somersetshire, 
England, September 12. 1857,500 of George and 




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Hannah ( Pidgeon) Chutter. He began his early 
education in the jirivate schools of this country. 
After seven years as a clerk in the dr3--goods busi- 
ness, spent mostly in Boston, he began to study 



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with reference to the ministry. He .spent some 
time in Phillips Acadeni}', Andover, Massachnsetts, 
but graduating from t'oburn Institute, Waterville, 
Maine, he entered Colby ITniversity in the same 
city in the following fall. He was graduated from 
the Theological Seminary at .\ndover, Massachu- 
setts, and was settled at once over the First Con- 
gregational church of Littleton, New Hampshire, 
which charge he resigned to go abroad for travel 
and study. He spent one year at the Oxford Lfni- 
versity, and another at the ]-'resbyterian Divinity 
College in Edinburgh, Scotland, and some time in 
Paris. He traveled extensively in Europe, going 
as far North as the Arctic Circle, visiting Egypt, 
Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece. On his return to 
this country he received several calls to important 
churches, but was obliged, on account of ill health, 
to refuse Ihem and finally to leave the ministry. 
He has been in the dry-goods business since 1893 
and has taken much interest in the educational 
affairs of the town. He is a member cf the School 
Poard, and serves on the committee for the exami- 
nation of schools and teachers. He is a Trustee 
of the Public Library, and of the Dow Academy of 
Franconia. He has a decided taste for literary 
work, having written considerable for the press, 
and has lectured frequently. Li politics he is a 
Republican. Mr. Chutter was married October 
19, icScS7, at Boston, ftLassachusetts, to Carolyn 
Clark Cutler, daughter of the Hon. John Cutler of 
that city. They have two children : Mildred Caro- 
lyn and Reginald I-'rederick Chutter. 



COLONY, HoR.Aiici, first Mayor of Keene, 
President and Treasurer of the Cheshire Mills, 
Harrisville, was born in Keene, November 14, 
1835, son of Josiah and Hannah (Taylor) Colony. 
He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His great-grand- 
father, John Colony, who came to this country in 
1740, served in the French and Indian Wars, and 
was on the alarm list in the Revolution. Josiah 
Colony, the father of the subject of this sketch, 
was a prominent manufacturer of woolen goods. 
In the maternal line, Mr. Colony is a descendant 
of the Danforth family of Massachusetts. He 
received his early education in the public schools 
and Keene Academy, studied under a private 
tutor, read law in the office of the lion. Levi 
Chamberlain in Keene, and attended the .Mbany 
Law School, from which he was graduated in i860. 
He was admitted to the New York Par at Albany, 
anrl to the Cheshire County Par of New Hamii- 



shire in the same year. Mr. Colony carried on a 
successful legal practice until 1867, when he took 
an interest in the manufacturing firm of Faulkner 
& Colony, and upon this firm becoming a corpora- 
tion he was its first President and Treasurer. Sub- 




H(_)R.A1I(1 (.Ul.nNV. 

sequently he became interested in the Cheshire 
mills of Harrisville, and he has since been the 
Company's President and Treasurer. He is a 
Director in the Cheshire, Winchester and Citizens' 
National I!anks, and is I'resident of the Keene 
Steam Power Company. Notwithstanding the 
demands made upon liis time by his private 
interests, Mr. Colony has served with distinction in 
the conduct of public affairs. He was a member 
of the Board of Labor Statistics under Governor 
Weston. When Keene became a city he was its 
first Mayor, and was re-elected at its next munici- 
pal election. He was a delegate to the Demo- 
cratic National Con\ention in 186S; was a 
Representative to the Legislature, from Ward 5, 
Keene, in 1877, at which session he was the Dem- 
ocratic candidate for Speaker, and serveil mi the 
Judiciary Committee. Mr. Colony is President of 
the Cheshire Comity Humane Society. He is a 
member of several Masonic bodies, including Social 
h'riends Lodge, and Hugh de I'ayens Command- 
ery, Knights Templar, etc. He married, Decem- 



1863. E'licline Eimes J( 



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three children : John Joslin, Charles Taylor, and 
Kate, wife of Colonel James A. Frye of Boston, 
Massachusetts. 



EDGERLY, Frank Gilman, High Sheriff of 
Merrimack County, Concord, was born in Mere- 
dith, New Hampshire, February 19, 1853, son of 
William M. and I.ydia (Fogg) Edgerly. He is of 
English descent. In 1664, Thomas Edgerly emi- 
grated to America and settled in that part of New 
Hampshire now known as Durham. He was a 
well educated man and, in the early history of the 
state, was a Justice and tried many important 
cases in which he manifested a strong and sound 




judgment. Frank G. Edgerly's parents were 
among the most substantial people of the northern 
part of Belknap county. He attended the public 
schools of his native town up to his si.\teenth year, 
when he went to Concord and served an appren- 
ticeship in the office of the Independent Demo- 
crat, afterwards the Independent Statesman. 
He was connected with these papers as a printer 
for fourteen years. In 1SS3, he started a printing 
establishment for himself, in which he continued 
as owner until 1889. While engaged in that busi- 
ness, he gained a reputation throughout the state 
for artistic work. Subseiiuently, he became a real 
estate broker in which he was very successful. In 



1893, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, for Merri- 
mack county, and on April i, 1895, assumed the 
office of High Sheriff, which office he still retains. 
When Mr. Edgerly was re-elected in 1896, he 
received the largest plurality vote ever given to 
any High Sheriff in his county. In the adminis- 
tration of his office, he has manifested fine execu- 
tive ability, and has demonstrated that the voters 
of Merrimack county exercised good judgment in 
placing him in the position. He is also jailor 
and in the management of that institution, has 
always preserved the interests of the people in 
every particular. In iSSg-'go, he was a member of 
the Legislature. Mr. Edgerly is a Thirty-second 
Degree Mason in the Ancient and Accepted Rite, 
a member of Blazing Star Lodge, No. 1 1, FVee and 
Accepted Masons, in which he has officiated as 
Worshipful Master for two years; of Trinity Chap- 
ter, Royal Arch Masons, which he has served as 
High Priest for two years ; Horace Chase Council, 
Royal and Select Masters, officiating as Thrice 
Illustrious Master for two years ; Mt. Horeb Com- 
mandery. Knights Templar, and of Aleppo Temple, 
Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. Of the 
benevolent organizations, he is a member of the 
White Mountain Lodge, No. 5, Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, and Concord Lodge, No. 8, 
Knights of Pythias, being a Past Chancellor and a 
life member of the Grand Lodge of Knights of 
Pythias, of New Hampshire; and is a member of 
the Manchester (New Hampshire) Lodge No. 146, 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Also, 
of the higher degrees of Freemasonry, he is a 
life member of the Order of High Priesthood of 
New Hampshire ; of the Grand Council of Royal 
and Select Masters of New Hampshire, and of the 
Grand Royal Arch Chapter of New Hampshire. 
He is a member of the Derryfield Club of Man- 
chester, of the Wonolancet Club of Concord, of the 
New Hampshire Press Association, and of the New 
Hampshire Historical Society. In politics he is a 
Republican, and for a number of years has been 
prominent in the councils of that party. He is a 
member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and has 
been vestryman of the church for several years. 
Mr. Edgerly married, April i, 1893, Anna M. 
Swasey of Lisbon, New Hampshire. They have 
one child, Lydia Edgerly, born July 4, 1894. 



EMERY, GEORfiK Henrv, Harness Manufac- 
turer and Merchant, Concord, New Hampshire, 
was born in Stratham, New Hampshire, May 12, 



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1836, son of Joseph and Sophronia (Moore) Emery. 
In the paternal line he traces his descent through 
Ichabod Emery, born April 21. 1771; Job, born 
January 29, 1745 ; Joseph, born February 24, 1702 ; 
Job, born in 1670; James, born in England about 
1630 ; to Anthony, born in Ramsey, Hants, Eng- 
land, about 1600, who, on April 3, 1635, in com- 
pany with his brother, John, sailed from South- 
ampton for America in the ship James of London, 
William Cooper, Master, and arrived in ISoston 
June 3. JJeyond Anthony, the line is traced to 
Gilbert D'Amory, who came to England with Wil- 
liam the Conqueror. George H. Emery lost his 
father in infancy, but the boy was carefully nur- 
tured by a devoted mother, until at the age of 
eleven he went to live with an uncle at Concord, 
New Hampshire, where he passed through the 
graded schools. At fifteen he resolved to learn a 
trade, and, accordingly, entered the shop of his 
cousin, James R. Hill, a successful harness maker. 
He thoroughly mastered the trade, and evinced a 
great aptitude for the business. When he had 
served his time, he again took up his studies and 
made great progress, devoting mucli of his time to 
bookkeeping. When about nineteen he went to 
Chicago, where after a time he entered FJell's Com- 
mercial College and graduated with honor. Soon 
after, he entered the employ, as bookkeeper, of a 
large wholesale and retail establishment of sad- 
dlery and leather goods, representing the senior 
partner's interest in the business. 'I'his relation 
continued until the firm closed its business, when 
Mr. Emery entered Bell's College as Tutor, soon 
being called to the professorship of the bookkeep- 
ing department. He came East in the summer of 
1859 with the intention of making a short visit, 
but a very flattering offer from his old employer, 
Mr. James R. Hill, induced him to remain. His 
energy was soon manifested in the management of 
the affairs of the concern, where he introduced the 
most modern system. When the War of 1861 
broke out, he obtained large government contracts 
for his employer. At the close of tiie war, a co- 
partnership was formed, composed of James R. 
Hill, George H. Emery, and J. E. Uvvight, under 
the firm name of James R. Hill & Company, and 
Mr. Emery was constituted the managing partner 
of the firm. Since that time indomitable energy 
and perseverance have made the name of '-'The 
Concord Harness" well known all over the world. 
At the death of the senior partner in 1884, the sur- 
viving partners, who became sole owners, continued 



the business under the same firm name until 18SS, 
when a stock company was formed with Mr. Emery 
as President. The firm has long competed for 
England's trade among her near and distant colo- 
nies. Mr. Emery received the three first degrees 
in Free Masonry in Cleveland Lodge, Chicago, in 
1858; was a projector and charter member of 
Eureka Lodge ; is a member of Trinity Royal 
Arch Chapter, of Mount Horeb Commandery of 
Ivnights Templar, and is a Thirty-second degree 
Mason. He is also a member of White Mountain 
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of 
the Wonolancet Club. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. He was a mi-nilicr of the Citv Council for 




GKO. H. EMEKY. 

s\x years, and for two years the President of that 
body. Mr. Emery married on September 22, 1861, 
Abbie W. Clarke, a descendant of Nathaniel Clarke, 
who settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, about 1640. 
They have three daughters : Elizabeth Cyrene, Lil- 
lian Abbie, wife of Charles W. Walworth, of Law- 
rence, Massachusetts, and Hattie Sophia, wife of 
George R. Gushing, Jr., of Concord, New Hamp- 
shire. 



C.REENLEAF, Ch.\ki,ks Hknkv, State Senator 
and Proprietor of the Profile House, Franconia, 
New Hampshire, and Hotel Vendome, Poston, 
Massachusetts, was born in Danville, Vermont, 
July 23, 1841, son of Scth and Lydia Hall (Ilurn- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ham) Greenleaf. He comes of a family long resi- 
dent in northern New Hampshire, and he himself 
has been a resident of the state since a very early 
age, his parents removing from Vermont to Haver- 
hill when he was less than three months old. Sub- 
sequently, they changed their residence to Concord, 
where the son was educated in public and private 
schools. Colonel Greenleaf developed an early 
liking for hotel life, and gained practical experi- 
ence in the business in leading hotels in Washing- 
ton, New York, Boston, and the White Mountains, 
where, after two seasons at the Crawford House, 
he joined his fortunes with those of the Profile 
House, with which he has been connected for 
thirty-eight years. In 1S65 the opportunity came 
to him to assist in the management of the house, 
the firm being Taft, Tyler \: Greenleaf. In 1S68 
the firm was changed to Taft & Greenleaf, the 
partnership continuing until the death of Mr. Taft 
in 1881, since which time Colonel Greenleaf has 
been in sole charge of the house. From its begin- 
ning, his career has been marked by great success, 
and not only has he advanced the interests of his 




was not until twelve years ago that he decided to 
e-xtend his interests outside of the state, and as the 
senior partner in the firm of C. H. Greenleaf & 
Company, leased the Hotel Vendome in Poston. 
Among other enterprises in which he has engaged 
is the Profile and Franconia Notch Railroad, of 
which for eleven years he was Treasurer and Mana- 
ger. Colonel Greenleaf has been an important 
factor in Republican politics for a number of years. 
He was a delegate to the National Convention 
which gave Penjamin Harrison his first nomination 
for the Presidency; in i895-'96 he was a member 
of the Legislature from Franconia, and in i897-'9S 
a member of the State Senate. He took an active 
part in the deliberations of that body, and made an 
enviable record; and in the spring of 1S98 he was 
induced to enter the lists for the nomination for 
the Governorship, a candidacy which brought him 
Mattering evidences of his popularity. He with- 
drew, however, as his business interests would not 
permit of his making an aggressive canvass. Colo- 
nel Greenleaf gained his title as a member of Gov- 
ernor Prescott's staff. He is a member of the Art 
Club of Boston and of the Derryfield and Calumet 
Clubs of Manchester. He is Vice-President of the 
New England Summer Resort Association. Colo- 
nel Greenleaf was married May 17, 1867, to ,\bbie 
Frances Buniliam. Thev have no children. 



GERRISH, Enoch, Retired F'armer and Lumber 
Dealer, Concord, was born in Boscawen, July 28, 
1822, son of Isaac and Caroline (Lawrence) Ger- 
rish. He is in the seventh generation from Wil- 
liam Gerrish, who came to Newburyport in 1635. 
His grandfather, Enoch Gerrish, was a Lieutenant 
in the Revolutionary War, and his great-grand- 
father, Stejihen Gerrish, was one of the first set- 
tlers of the town of Boscawen, going there in 1735. 
Mr. Gerrish was educated at the academies in his 
native place, and at Mcriden. He then engaged 
in farming, and dealt in wood and lumber. He 
has been one of the Trustees of the New Hamp- 
shire Savings Bank for thirty-five years, being one 
of the Investing Committee for twenty-one years. 
He is a charter member of the Rolfe and Rumford 
Asylum. He held all the offices in the Twenty- 
house, but he also has done much in building up First Regiment of the New Hampshire militia, 
the tourist and summer visitor business in the from Ensign in 1840 to Colonel i848-'49, and has 
White Mountain regions. He had received many been Justice of the Peace for fifty years. Mr. Ger- 
tlattering otTers to take the management of other rish is a Mason, a member of Mt. Horeb Com- 
great hotels in various parts of the country, but it mandery. In politics he is a Republican. For 



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five years he was Moderator in Roscawen, and for 
four years served as Selectman and Overseer of the 
Poor. He was a member of the Legislature in 
i88o-'8i, and of the State Senate in i887-'S8. 
For two years he has been Assessor in Concord. 




ENOCH UliKKISH. 



He married, May 23, 1854, Miranda O. Lawrence. 
They have two children : Frank L., of lioscawen, 
and Lizzie M. Gerrish, wife of F>. VV. Willard, Con- 
cord, New Hampshire. 



HARDN', Sii.As, Lawyer and Merchant, Keene, 
was born in Nelson, New Hampshire, April 3, 
1827, son of Noah and Jerusha (Kimball) Hardy, 
fiis father was a Captain in the militia, and was 
born in Nelson, September 16, i78(;, anti died 
there November 28, 1862. His mother was born 
in the same town August 13, 1790, and died there 
lanuary 11, 1854. His paternal grandfather, also 
Noah Hardy, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, 
in 1758, and died in .Vntrim, December 12, 1835. 
He removed from Hollis to Nelson just after the 
Revolution, and became a Deacon of the ( )rthodox 
church. Early in the war, when a mere boy, he 
was enrolled as a minute man in the cavalry 
reserve at Hollis, and was twice called out to go 
to Bennington, Vermont, and once to Rhode 
Lslancl, but never participated in an actual battle. 
'Phrough his paternal grandmother, Sar.ih (Spof- 



ford) Hardy, he is descended from John Spofford 
who came to Rowley, Massachusetts, from York- 
shire, England, in 1638, and who was the ancestor 
of all the Spoffords in the United States and Can- 
ada. The old farm at Georgetown, Massachusetts, 
is still in the Spofford family, and periodical 
reunions are held there. Mr. Hardy's maternal 
grandfather, David Kimball, was born in Bo.xford, 
Massachusetts, served over three years in the Rev- 
olutionary War, enlisting in that town in April. 
1777, in a Massachusetts regiment, under Captain 
Daniel Lane and Col. Ichabod Alden. He was in 
the battle of Stillwater and wintered at Valley 
F'orge. At the e.xpiration of his service, he again 
enlisted as a substitute for si.'; months, and served 
under Captain Wilder in Colonel Jackson's Massa- 
chusetts regiment. He was present in the camp 
at West Point at the capture of Major Andre, 
being on detail at Washington's headquarters. 
He saw Washington when he read the papers 
taken from ,\ndre's boot. His name was entered 
on the pension roll in 1820, and his military record 
is on file in the pension department. He married 
Lydia Simmons of Bo.xford, Massachusetts, whose 
father and brother were killed at tlie battle of 
Bunker Hill. David Kimball settled in Nelson 
soon after the close of the war, and died there 
October 18, 1842, at the age of ninety-two. Noah 
Hardy, the father of Silas, was a farmer for a few 
years until by an accident he lost a leg, when he 
learned the trades of shoe and harness-maker. 
He had ten children, all living to mature age. 
'Phe subject of this sketch, the eighth child, spent 
his early life on the farm and in the shop. Owing 
to the large family and the limited means of his 
father, he was " put out " to a farmer at the age of 
eleven, and worked away from home until of full 
age, except for a few months in cold weather. His 
earnings during this time were over seven hundred 
dollars. The people among whom he lived were 
honest and industrious but illiterate, and the only 
opportunity he had fur an education in boyhood 
after eleven years of age, was from six to twelve 
weeks each year in a country school. He had but 
little access to books or papers, but improved 
every opportunity. The winter before his majority 
he taught a district school. He had a strong 
desire for an education. 'Phe next four years he 
spent in hard work, and in teaching and fitting for 
college, receiving no pecuniary aid. In 1852 he 
entered the Sophomore class in Dartmouth College, 
graduating in 1855 with the degree of .\. B. He 



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had the honor of being a selected speaker at the 
commencement. In his class were Hon. Nelson 
Dingley, Chief Justice Field of Massachusetts, and 
Judges Allen and Ladd of the New Hampshire 
Supreme Court. For one year after his graduation 
Mr. Hardy was Principal of Foxcroft Academy, 
Maine, and then entered the office of Hon. Levi 
Chamberlain at Keene as a law student. During 
this time, and until admitted to the Bar, he was 
compelled to struggle with poverty, having no rela- 
tives of means to aid him, but he pressed steadily 
forward with eye on the goal, never looking back. 
In September, 1858, he was admitted to the Bar of 
New Hampshire, at the term in Sullivan county, of 
the Supreme Court. He began practice in Keene 
at once. From March, 1859, to March, 1864, he 
was Register of Probate, by appointment of the 
Governor, and from 1864 to 1874 he was Judge of 
Probate for Cheshire county. Since then he has 
confined himself to his regular profession, and has 
been very successful. He has done a large busi- 
ness as a pension attorney, and many a veteran in 
his section of the state, and many widows and 




SILAS HARDV. 

orphans of veterans have occasion to be grateful 
to him. He has settled many estates. Though 
his charges as attorney have been proverbially low 
yet, being industrious and economical, he has accu- 
mulated a comfortable estate. He served as 



Engrossing Clerk of the New Hampshire Legisla- 
ture in i860 and 1861, and was a member of the 
Constitutional Convention in 1876. During the 
last six years he has owned a dry-goods store in 
Keene in addition to attending to his professional 
duties. He has always taken an interest in public 
affairs and politics, and has held a number of offi- 
cial positions and various offices in banking institu- 
tions, and is now President of the Winchester 
National Bank. In politics Mr. Hardy has been 
a Republican since the organization of the party 
in 1S56, and has voted for all its presidential nom- 
inees, and attended many state conventions and 
many lesser ones. He has been City Solicitor, 
Alderman, and a member of the School Board. 
Mr. Hardy was married December 31, 1863, to 
Josephine 1\I., daughter of Alonzo and Sophia H. 
Kingsley of Winchester. She was a graduate of 
Mt. Holyoke Seminary in the class of 1857. Mrs. 
Hardy died June 19, 1871, leaving one child ten 
weeks old, Ashley Kingsley Hardy. This son was 
instructed by his father at home until he entered 
Keene High .School at the age of sixteen, where he 
prepared for college. He entered Dartmouth Col- 
lege in 1890 with a high rank, and was graduated 
in 1894, being the Valedictorian of his class. He 
then spent three years in Germany at the Berlin 
and Leipzig Universities. Returning in October, 
1S97. he took a position at Dartmouth as an 
Instructor in German. He has since been elected 
Instructor for three years, with leave of absence for 
one year, and has returned to Leipzig to complete 
the course marked out and receive the degree of 
Ph. 1). This son, having been thus early deprived 
of his natural mother, came under the care of 
Miss Esther Hills — a member of the family, who 
acted as his foster-mother through his minority — 
whose excellent teaching and discipline contributed 
largely to the moulding and shaping of his high 
character. They are to each other in their mutual 
feelings and respect as parent and child. 



HAMBLl'.ir, Charles Judson, was born in 
Nashua, January 31, 1862, son of Judson A., and 
Mary J. (I'erkins) Haniblett. When he was five 
years of age, he removed with his family to Mil- 
ford, where he attended school, graduating at the 
Milford High School in 1880. He then attended 
a private school for a year, after wliich he pursued 
his studies at Francestown Academy, a preparatory 
school, taking the four years" course in two years. 
After being graduated from Francestown .Vcademy 



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177 



in 1883. he commenced the study of law in the 
office of Robert M. Wallace of Milford, and the 
office of liaiiihridge W'adleigh in I'.oston, and was 
graduated from the Boston University of Law in 
1889. He began the practice of law in Nashua, on 




C. J. HAMLLEri'. 

the 15th of October, 1889. In 1887 he was elected 
Assistant Clerk of the New Hampshire Senate, 
and was re-elected in 1889. In 189 1 and 1893 he 
was elected Clerk of that body. In 1891 he was 
elected City Solicitor of the city of Nashua, and 
was re-elected to that office in 1892, 1893, and 
1894. He was married October 4, 1894, to Geor- 
gie Ellen Stevens, daughter of David and Cornelia 
Stevens. He has one child by this marriage, a 
daughter: Mary Stevens Hamblett. Mr. Hamb- 
lett was appointed United States District Attorney 
by President McKinley in March, 1898, and 
assumed the duties of iiis office on March 16, 



HASTlNCiS, 'rnoiiAS Nelson, W'alpole, was 
born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 1858, 
son of T. Nelson and Harriet M. (Holland) Has- 
tings. His grandfather, Thomas Hastings, was a 
very successful merchant of East Cambridge, 
being for a number of years in the firm of Hast- 
ings & Dana, wholesale grocers. T. Nelson 
Hastings, Sr., who died when his son was only 
nine months old, was a man of much influence, 



and was for years a member of the Commercial 
E.xchange of Boston. Mr. Hastings's great-grand- 
father on his mother's side was Doctor Abraham 
Holland, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and the 
third physician to practice in VValpole where he 
was very prominent in his profession for forty 
years. His son Ephraim, born in 1790, was in the 
War of 1812, and his grandson, Henry E., was a 
Surgeon in the Ci\il War. The subject of this 
sketch acquired his elementary education in the 
public schools of Walpole, whither his mother 
removed upon the death of his father. He after- 
ward attended Warren Academy at Woburn, Mass- 
achusetts, and the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, where he pursued a course in archi- 
tecture. From 1882 to 1888 he lived in Cambridge, 
and was engaged in various business enterprises in 
Boston. In 1S82 he built the Bijou Theatre in that 
city, and conducted it with George Tyler as Mana- 
ger. While owner of the Bijou, he introduced the 
electric lighting system. Being a warm personal 
friend of Mr. Edison's, he became a pioneer in 
introducing his new invention to the public, putting 
in over seven hundred lights. He also placed in 
the theatre, six magnificent chandeliers that had 
been made to send to Egjpt. During this time, he 
was interested also in the Boston Tobacco Com- 
pany, and was for three years its President. He 
was a charter member of the old Boston ISicycle Club, 
and at the first bicycle race ever held in Suffolk 
county, took the first prize. In 1880, with four 
other members, he made a cycling trip abroad, the 
first trip of the kind ever made, and the "Fortu- 
nate Five," as they were termed, were entertained 
by the Bicycle Club of London, then composed 
e.xclusively of men of wealth and noble family. 
They were made members of the Bicycle Touring 
Club of England. Mr. Hastings extended his trip, 
making a pleasure tour in Germany, Switzerland, 
and other countries. In politics he is an earnest 
Republican. Serving in the State Senate during 
the biennial term, iS97-'9S, at his election receiv- 
ing the largest vote in the town. He was Chair- 
man of the Committee on Agriculture, Secretary of 
Education Committee and of the Committee on 
Incorporations, and a member of the ('ommittee on 
Labor. He is extremely popular on account of 
his genial and amiable qualities and his liberal 
hospitality, and with his commanding height and 
presence he makes a notable figure at the State 
Capitol. Mr. Hastings is a good judge of horse 
flesh, and is said to be one of the most skillful of 



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MliN OF l'R(iC;i<KSS. 



four-in-liaiul whips, his coal bhick horses constitu- 
ting one of the finest four-in-hand teams in the 
state. He has always taken a most active interest 
in the affairs of Walpole, and has identified himself 
in every way with its social and educational life. 
He has been a member of the School Committee 
for several years, is a liberal supporter of the 
Unitarian Church, and is Chairman uf its Execu- 




T. N. HASTINGS. 

live Committee. In 1.S96 he presented the I'ni- 
tarian Society with the Hastings Memorial Parish 
House. He was an interested mover in placing in 
the church the fine organ which was the gift of 
(;. .\. Stearns. He is a loyal and active member 
of the Masonic fraternity. Is a Thirty-second 
degree Mason, and a member of Hugh de Payens 
Coinmandery, Knights Templar, of Keene, New 
Hampshire. On July 14, 1882, Mr. Hastings mar- 
ried .\niy, daughter of the late Hudson E. Bridge 
of .St. Louis. Five children were born to them, ol 
whom four are living: 'I'iiomas N., |r., Hudson 
Bridge, Russell, and Henry W'inthrop Hastings. 



H.\TCH, Rii.EV Ht'RN'HAM, Lawyer, Peter- 
borough, was born in W'illiamstown, Vermont, 
October 19, 1832, son of Alvah and Laura (Burn- 
ham) Hatch. He comes of good old New England 
stock, his descent in the paternal line being traced to 
the Hatch, who settled in Dorchester, Massachu- 



setts, about 1630, and one branch of whose 
descendants are the Hatches of F'almouth, Massa- 
chusetts. One of his sons, or grandsons, removed 
to Tolland, Connecticut, and from that town, 
Joseph Hatch, great-grandfather of the subject of 
this sketch, made his way into the New Hamp- 
shire wilderness and became one of the pioneers 
in .\lstead. Asa Hatch, son of Joseph, served in 
the Revolutionary War, for which service he subse- 
quently received a pension, and was one of the 
first settlers of Williamstown. His wife was Jane 
Black of Alstead. Alvah Hatch, son of Asa, was 
born in W'illiamstown, August 6, 1798. His wife, 
who was born April ig, 1805, was a daughter of 
Rufus and T. C. (Piass) Burnham, both of whom 
were natives of Windham, Connecticut, whence the 
families removed to Williamstown in the early days 
of that place's history. Riley I!. Hatch attended 
the public schools, was fitted for college at New 
Salem (Massachusetts) .Academy and Sa.\ton"s 
River (Vermont) Seminary, entered Middlebury 
College, and was graduated in 1857. For three 
years he taught in the academies at .Swanzev and 




R. 11. HATCH. 

Peterborough, beginning the study of the law in the 
latter town. Being admitted to the Bar in Septem- 
ber, 1862, he began the practice of his profession 
in Peterborough. In addition to his legal business 
Mr. Hatch has had a number of important and 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



17^ 



lucrative interests, in insurance, banking, and rail- 
roads, and for nearly ten years (from 1864 to 1873) 
he was Treasurer of the Peterborough Savings 
Bank. He has been honored with a number of 
town offices, and has been concerned in the man- 
agement of school and library affairs. He was a 
Member of the Legislature in i868-'69 and in 
i8g3-'94; and was a Member of the Constitutional 
Convention of 1889. In politics he is a Republi- 
can. He is a member of the Altaniont Lodge, 
Free and Accepted Masons, of wliich he is a Past 
Master, and of Peterborough Chapter, Royal Arch 
Masons. Mr. Hatch married, April 3, i860, 
Ellen Maria Nichols. On November 26, 1863, he 
married Ellen Maria Barber. He has two daugh- 
ters : Ida Frances and Ellen Maria Hatch. 



Masons of Lowell, Massachusetts. In politics he 
is a Republican. Doctor Hill was married October 
29, 1890, to Grace Wright Gerrish. 



HILL, Almiin Ward. Physician, Concord, was 
born in Lowell, Massachusetts, June 27, 1864, son 
of Hosea B. and Rachel O. (Norris) Hill. He re- 
ceived his education in the public schools of Low- 
ell, at Brown University, graduating in 1884, and 
at the Boston University Medical School, from 
which he was graduated in 1887. He began prac- 




A. W. IIILL. 

tice in Lowell in that year, and remained until 
October, 1896, when he removed to Concord, 
where he now resides. He was a member of the 
School Board of Lowell from 1887 to 1891. He is 
a member of Pawtucket Lodge, Free and Accepted 



HOPKINS, Charles Bi'kroN, Agent of the 
Brightwood Mills, Hinsdale, was born in Chester- 
field Factory, New Hampshire, May 16, 1S55, son 
of Richard Henry and Ellen Merrill (Newton) Hop- 




C. v.. IIUI'RIN.S. 

kins. He traces his ancestry back to Richard 
Hopkins, who went to Chesterfield in 1787. His 
father removed from that town in 1870, going to 
Hinsdale, where he engaged in the manufacture of 
paper. Charles Hopkins was educated in the 
schools in his native town and in Hinsdale; at 
Powers Institute, Bernardston, Massachusetts; at 
Leland and Gray Seminary, Townshend, Vermont ; 
and at Kimball l^nion Academy, Meriden, New 
Hampshire. He was for a time in the paper 
manufacturing business, and in July, 1877, became 
Agent for the Brightwood Mills, which position he 
has held ever since. He has been a member of 
the Board of Education for six years, and was a 
member of the last Constitutional Convention in 
New Hampshire. He is a Mason, a member of 
Aleppo Temple, Boston, Massachusetts ; of Hugh 
De Payens Commander)', Keene, New Hampshire ; 
and an Odd F'ellow, a member of the Order of Red 
Men, and of the Foresters, in Hinsdale. He is a 
member of the Republican State Committee. 



MEN OF TROGRESS. 



HAZEL TON, ('.Kouia-. Cochrane, Lawyer, Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia, was born in Chester, 
Rockingham county, son of William and Mercy J. 
(Cochrane) Hazellon. He is in the seventh gen- 
eration from Robert Hazelton, who came to Salem, 





'W 



I. ho. C. IIA/KI.ION. 

Massachusetts, in 1637, and in 1649 settled in 
Bradford, Massachusetts, on the Merrimack river. 
His descendants followed the march of civilization 
into New Hampshire. He was educated in the 
common schools and at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, 
and Dummer Academy, Oldtown, Massachusetts. 
He was graduated from LTnion College, Schenec- 
tady, New York, in 1858, with the degree of A. B. 
The same year he was admitted to the Bar of the 
State of New York, began practice in Schenectady, 
removing to Wisconsin in 1863, where he prac- 
ticed until 1SS2 in all the State and United States 
Courts, including the United States Supreme Court. 
Since 1883 he has been in practice in Washington, 
District of Columbia, and is now in the Washing- 
ton Loan and Trust Building with his son, John H. 
Hazelton. He was District .Attorney for Grant 
county, Wisconsin ; State Senator for four years, 
being President pro tempore of the Senate during 
his second term. He was elected to Congress in 
1876, from the Third Congressional District of 
Wisconsin, and was twice re-elected, making six 
years' service. He was Chairman of the Com- 



mittee of Pacific Railroads, a member of the Com- 
mittee of Elections, and also of the Committee of 
Private Land Claims. He was Attorney for the 
District of Columbia during the administration of 
Harrison. In politics he has always been a Repub- 
lican. Mr. Hazelton married, November, 1863, 
Ellen Van Antwerp of Schenectady, New York, 
who was born at Mobile, Alabama, September 19. 
1845. They have two children living: George C, 
Jr., and John Hampden Hazelton. The former is at 
the ^ead of the Keystone Law & Patent Company 
of Philadelphia, and the latter is engaged in the 
practice of law with his father at Washington. 
Two children died in infancy: Henry Maurice, born 
January 17, 1866, who died October 4, 1867, and 
Alice Hazelton, born July 22, 1873, who died July 
8, 1875. Mr. Hazelton cherishes an abiding love 
for New England and yearly comes back to visit 
the scenes of his childhood and the many relatives 
and friends who never fail to greet his return 
with a warm and generous welcome. 



JEVVETT, Stephen Shannon, Lawyer, Laconia, 
was born in Gilford, now Laconia, September 18, 
1858, son of John G. and Carrie E. (Shannon) 
Jewett. In the paternal line he is descended in the 
ninth generation from Maxiniillian Jewett who 
came from England to Rowley. Massachusetts, in 
1639. His great-grandfather was one of the first 
settlers of what is now Laconia, having gone there 
in 1780, after his service in the War of the Revolu- 
tion and having fought at the battle of Bunker 
Hill. Stephen S. Jewett attended the public 
schools of Laconia and Gilford Academy and also 
received private instruction from his father who for 
many years was a school teacher. During his boy- 
hood and youth Mr. Jewett had some experience in 
a variety of occupations, working in a woolen mill, 
printing office, dry goods store, machine shop, 
paint shop, on the farm and keeping school. At 
the age of seventeen he began to read law in the 
office of Charles F. Stone of Laconia, who was sub- 
sequently Naval Officer at the Port of Boston, and 
continued in this office until his first Bar examina- 
tion when he was admitted, March 17, 1880. Mr. 
Jewett began active practice of law at Laconia im- 
mediately upon his admission to the Bar and there 
he has remained ever since. His practice has been 
large and lucrative. He is a member of the Bar of 
the United States Circuit, District, and Supreme 
Courts as well as of the State Courts. He practiced 
alone until September i, 1889, when he was associ- 



MEN Ol'' PROGRESS. 



ated with William A. Pkimnier who has remained 
with him ever since, the firm name being Jewett 
iv: Plummer. He is interested in many of 
the most important enterprises in his city ; 
is a Director of the Laconia National Dank, 
a Trustee of the City Savings Bank, a Di- 
rector and Solicitor for the Laconia Building & 
Loan Association, a Director of tiie Masonic Tem- 
ple Association, and a Director of several local cor- 
porations. In politics t'olonel Jewett is a strong 
Republican and for many years he has been an 
active worker, both in and out of the state; was 
Secretary of the New Hampshire Republican State 
Committee from icSqo to 1892 ; Chairman of the 
same committee from 1S92 to 1896; was Sergeant- 
at-Arms of the New Hampshire Delegation to the 
Republican National Convention at Minneapolis, in 
1892 ; Delegate at Large and Chairman of the New 
Hampshire Delegation to the Republican National 
Convention at St. Louis, in 1S96; and a member of 
the Executive Committee of the National Republi- 
can League. He has been City Solicitor of Laco- 
nia since its incorporation as a city, in the spring 




1891 to 1893 was Clerk of the same body. He 
was a member of the Legislature from January, 
1895, to January, 1899, being Speaker of the House 
in 1895, and a member of the Judiciary Committee 
in the session of 1897. He is a member of the 
Home Market Club of Boston, of the New Hamp- 
shire Club, of the New Hampshire Historical Soci- 
ety, and of the Sons of the Revolution. For many 
years he was a member of the New Hampshire 
Militia, Company K of Laconia. He was a mem- 
ber with the rank of Colonel of the Staff of Gov- 
ernor Goodell. Colonel Jewett is actively inter- 
ested in legitimate sport with rod and gun, and is 
Secretary of the Belknap County Fish and Game 
League, and a memlser of the League of American 
Sportsmen. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, 
a member and Past Master of Mt. Lebanon Lodge 
of Laconia, member and Past High Priest of Union 
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Laconia ; member 
and Past Master of Pythagorian Council, Royal 
and Select Masters, of Laconia; member and Past 
Commander of Pilgrim Commandery, Knights Tem- 
plar, of Laconia; Past Grand Master of the Grand 
Council, Royal and Select Masters of New Hamp- 
shire, and member of Aleppo Temple, Nobles of 
the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is a member of 
the l-vuights of Pythias ; of the Red Men ; Ignited 
Order of Pilgrim Fathers ; United Order of Work- 
men, and of the Royal .Arcanum. He is a member 
of the Franklin Pierce Statue Commission. He 
married June 30, 1880, Annie L. Bray. They have 
one child : Theo Stephen Jewett, born December 
24, 1 89 1. 



JONES, Edwin Emery, Physician, Concord, was 
born in Loudon, New Hampshire, January 3, 1870, 
son of John and Martha L. (Wales) Jones. He 
received his early education at the town schools 
and I^embroke .Academy, graduating in the class 
of 1888. He attended Dartmouth College in 1888 
and 1889, in business '89 to '91, entered Dart- 
mouth Medical College '91, and was graduated 
from the Medical Department of that College in 
the class of 1894; played on the foot-ball teams of 
'9i-'92, and Captained the team of '93 when the 
cliampionship over Ainherst and Williams was ob- 
tained. He was House Physician of the Mary Hitch- 
of 1893. He was Engrossing Clerk (jf the New cock Memorial Hospital in i893-'94; began practice 
Hampshire Legislature in 1883, and was Clerk of in Norwich, Vermont, May, 1894. Li i896-'97 he 
Belknap County Supreme Court, in 1884. From was Chairman of the Board of School Directors of 
1.887 to 1889 he was .Assistant Clerk of the New Norwich,Vermont, and Trustee of the Public Library 
TTampshire House of R^epresentatives and from of that town during tlie same year. He is a mem- 



S. S. JEWEIT. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ber of the Sigma Chi and Alpha Kappa Kappa fra- 
ternities, the Odd Fellows, and Junior Order, Order 
United American Mechanics. In politics he is 
a Republican. Mr. Jones joined the Methodist 
church in Suncook, New Hampshire, 1890, and is 




E. E. JONES. 

now a member of First Methodist church. Concord, 
New Hampshire, and Secretary and Treasurer of 
Board of Trustees. Mr. Jones was married July 3, 
1894, to Maude E. Northrup, and has one son: 
Ralph Northrup Jones. 



KIMB.\LL, Edward Pavsun, Banker, Ports- 
mouth, was born in Warner, New Hampshire, 
July 4, 1834, son of the Reverend Reuben and 
Judith (Colby) Kimball. On the paternal side he 
comes of English stock, being descended from 
Richard Kimball, who came to this country from 
Suffolk county in 1634, and settled in Watertown, 
Massachusetts ; his descendants made their homes 
in Ipswich and Amesbury, Massachusetts, and 
Ilopkinton and Warner, New Hampshire; on the 
maternal side (Colby) also English, who came to 
this country about 1630. Mr. Kimball was edu- 
cated in the common schools at Kittery, Maine, 
and Hampton and Andover Academies. He was 
engaged in the mercantile business in Kittery from 
185s till 1857, when he removed to Portsmouth, 
where he has since been engaged in practical bank- 



ing. He was, first. Clerk in the Piscataqua E.x- 
change, and Portsmouth Savings Banks. In 187 1 
he was elected Cashier of the First National Bank, 
and in 1882 was promoted to the Presidency of 
the same bank, and also of the Piscataqua Savings 
Bank. In addition, he has several business inter- 
ests in the West. He has been a member of the 
City Government ; of the School Board, and of the 
State Legislature, in which he served in i885-'86. 
He is a Trustee of the Piscataqua Lodge of Odd 
Fellows; of the Cottage Hospital; of the Chase 
Home for Children, and the Portsmouth Seaman's 




E. p. KI.\1L1AI,L. 

Friend Society. He is President of the Howard 
Benevolent Society, and of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association. Since 1871 he has been a Dea- 
con of the North Congregational Church of Ports- 
mouth, and has held office as Clerk and Treasurer 
of the church since 1867. In politics he is a 
Republican. Mr. Kimball married September 13, 
1864, Martha Jane Thompson, daughter of Colonel 
Samuel and Anna True (Smith) Thompson, of 
Wilmot, New Hampshire. They have had three 
children : Elizabeth Colby, born January 29, 1866, 
died March 7, 1880; Martha Smith, born F-eb- 
ruary 28, 1870, who graduated from Smith College 
in class of '92 ; and Edward Thompson Kimball, 
born September 29, 1873, a graduate of Amherst 
College in the class of '96. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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LOCKHART, Burton Wellesley, Pastor of 
the Franklin-Street Congregational Church, Man- 
chester, was born in Lockhartville, King's county. 
Nova Scotia, January 24, 1855, son of Nathan A. 
and Elizabeth Ann (Bezanson) Lockhart. His 
ancestry on his father's side is Scotch-English, and 
on his mother's, Scotch-Huguenot. He attended 
the public schools of Nova Scotia, entered Arcadia 
College at Wolfville, and was graduated in June, 
1878. Four years later he was graduated from the 
Theological Seminary at Newton Centre, Massa- 
chusetts. His first charge was the Lockport (Nova 
Scotia) Baptist Church, from July i, 1S78, to Sep- 
tember 1, 1879. Hs *^s Pastor of the Second 
Baptist Church, Suffield, Connecticut, from Sep- 
tember I, 1882, to October i, 1S8S, when he be- 




1:. \V. LOCKHARI. 

came Pastor of the Third Congregational Church 
at Chicopee, Massachusetts. In December, 1S93, 
he began his pastorate in Manchester. Mr. Lock- 
hart married, December 24, 1SS3, Frances Mary 
Upson. 



LEACH, Edward Giles, City Solicitor, l'"rank- 
lin, was born in Meredith, New Hampshire, Janu- 
ary 28, 1849, son of Levi and Susan Catherine 
(Sanborn) Leach. He attended the common 
schools of Meredith and spent one term at the 
New Hampshire Conference Seminary at 'I'ilton, 



and for two 3'ears studied at Kimball Union Acad- 
emy, being graduated in 1867. He was graduated 
from Dartmouth College in the class of 187 i. Mr. 
Leach paid his own way through college, teaching 
in winter and acting as clerk in the Crawford 
House and Memphremagog House at Newport, 
Vermont, in the summer. After his graduation he 
studied law and was admitted to the Bar in Sep- 
tember, 1874, since which time he has been in 
practice at Franklin and Concord. He was in 
partnership with the Hon. Daniel Barnard at 
Franklin until 1879. Since then his office has 
been in Concord, where he has been a member of 
the firm of Leach & Stevens, his partner being 
Henry W. Stevens. He was Solicitor of Merri- 
mack county from 1880- 1884, and has been City 
Solicitor of Franklin since its organization as a 
city. He served in the Legislature at the sessions 
of 1893 and 1895, being Chairman of the House 
Judiciary Committee in the latter year. Mr. Leach 
has been President of the Franklin Board of Trade ; 
of the Franklin Building and Loan Association ; of 
the Franklin Park Association ; of the Manufac- 





E. G. LEACH. 

turers and Merchants Mutual Insurance Company^ 
since the organization of each. He has been 
Trustee and Clerk of the Unitarian Church since 
1880. He is a Director in the Light and Power 
Company; of the Franklin l''alls Company; and 



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MEN Ol 



'ROCRESS. 



the Franklin Electric Railroad. He drafted the 
charter of the city of Franklin, and was active in 
securing its passage b}' the Legislature and its 
adoption by the vote of the city. He was a lead- 
ing advocate of the city owning its water-works, 
and of the system of control by a non-partisan 
lioard of Water Commissioners, under which the 
plant has been managed ; and he has been one of 
the Board of ("ommissioners since the system was 
established. He was also active in advocating 
the system of parks for the city under control of a 
non-partisan lio.ird without pay, and lias been one 
of the Park Commissioners since the Board was 
established. In politics Mr. Leach is a Republi- 
can, and has been a member of the Republican 
State Committee from Franklin since 1S78. He 
was one of the leaders in the movement which 
changed the political control of the town in 1S93. 
He had been frequently nominated for office before 
that year, but had been unable to overcome the 
Democratic majority. Mr. Leach married, Decem- 
ber 24, 1874, .'Vgnes A. Robinson. He has two 
sons: Eugene VV. and Robert M. Leach, of the 
Dartmouth classes of 1901 and 1902 respectively. 



were the late Ex-Governor B. F. Prescott of Ep- 
ping, E.x-Lieutenant-Governor William H. Haile of 
Springfield, Massachusetts, and Judge Caleb Blod- 
gett of Boston, Massachusetts. He studied medi- 
cine with the late Professor Albert Smith, M. D., 



LEONARD, William Smith, l^hysician, Hins- 
dale, was born in Dublin, New Hampshire, Octo- 
ber 13, 1832, son of Reverend Levi W. and Eliza- 
beth Morison (Smith) Leonard. He belongs to 
the " Piridgewater Branch " of the Leonard family 
and is of the seventh generation in line of descent 
from Solomon Leonard, who was born in the vicin- 
ity of Monmouthshire, England, about 1610, came 
to America about '1630, and settled in Duxbury, 
Massachusetts, as early as 1633. His paternal 
grandfather, Jacob Leonard, was a Revolutionary 
soldier, whose son, Levi W. Leonard, D. D., was 
thirty-five years the Pastor of the Unitarian Con- 
gregational Church in Dublin, later removing to 
Exeter, where he was the editor of the News Letter. 
He was a man of extensive learning and inHuence, 
was identified with the cause of common school 
education in New Hampshire, and was the author 
of some valuable text-books. To him rightfully 
belongs the honor of establishing the first free 
library in the United States, and this was at Dub- 
lin in 1825. On the maternal side. Doctor \\'illiam 
S. Leonard is descended from the Hon. Samuel 
Smith, founder of the village of Peterborough. He 
was prepared for college at Phillips Exeter .Acad- 
emy, and entered Dartmouth College in 1852, 
being graduated in 1856. Among his classmates 




W. S. LEONARD. 

of Peterborough, attended three courses of lectures 
at Dartmouth Medical College, and was graduated 
in May, i860. For a short time in the summer 
and autumn of that year he practiced in Amesbury, 
Massachusetts, and in October settled in Hinsdale, 
where he has been a practicing physician for thirty- 
seven years. For ten years he was associated with 
the late Doctor Frederic Boyden. Doctor Leon- 
ard's practice has been large and lucrative, cover- 
ing a wide territory. For several years between 
i860 and 1870 he held the office of School Com- 
mittee, and also served subsequently as a member 
of the Board of Education for three years. He 
has been identified with the Hinsdale Public Li- 
brary ever since its foundation, as one of the Li- 
brary Committee. In 1897 he was appointed by the 
Commissioner of Pensions a member of the Board 
of Examining Surgeons at Keene. He is a mem- 
ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society, but 
belongs to no secret society or organization what- 
ever. He has never been active in politics. He 
formerly voted with the Democratic party, but 
parted from it on the silver issue in the Presi- 
dential election of 1896. He married, April 30, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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1861, Martha Elmira Greenwood, daughter of Jack- 
son Greenwood of Dublin. They have had seven 
children: Annie, Walter, Cora, and Dolly, who 
died in infancy and early childhood ; Frederick 
Smith, a member of the firm of Barrett i\: Leon- 
ard, printers, Springfield, Massachusetts; Margaret 
Elizabeth, a graduate of Radcliffe College, class of 
'98, and William Jackson Leonard, an artist who 
studied at Cowles Art School in Boston and for 
two years abroad, a large portion of his time being 
spent at Julien's Art School in Paris. In private 
life Doctor Leonard is genial, companionable, and 
full of mirth ; one who heartily enjoys a good joke, 
and has the faculty of adapting himself to old and 
young alike. He inherited from his father a taste 
for literature, and has devoted more time to such 
pursuits than the average physician in active prac- 
tice. Among his published writings may be men- 
tioned a paper read before the New Hampshire 
Medical Society, entitled " The Confidence of the 
Public in Non-professional Prescriptions," and an 
address delivered at the Medical Commencement 
at Dartmouth College in 1887, as Delegate from 
the New Hampshire Medical Society, entitled 
"Rambles in the Highways and By-ways of a Doc- 
tor's Life," also two Fourth of July orations of a 
humorous and patriotic character delivered at 
Hinsdale. He has written much for the news- 
papers, and has been for several years a regular 
correspondent to the Springfield Republican. He 
has the faculty of touching with playful satire upon 
the follies and foibles of the time without inflicting 
wounds or making enemies. 



KNIGHT, William Franklin, Laconia, Mer- 
chant, was born in Hanover, Grafton county. New 
Hampshire, October 13, 1847, son of Edwin Perry 
and Elizabeth W. T. (Vaughn) Knight. He comes 
of patriotic ancestry, his great-grandfather, William 
Knight, serving in the Revolutionary War. A 
brother of William Knight received a Captain's 
commission on the field of Bennington for gal- 
lantry in action. Mr. Knight was educated in the 
common schools of his native town, and at West 
Randolph Academy. At the age of seventeen he 
entered the employ of Parker Brothers, general 
merchants, Laconia, and in 1867 was, practically, 
in charge of the business. He eventually bought 
out the concern, conducting the business for ten 
years. In 1873 he became a member of the furni- 
ture house of Mansur &: Knight, which in 1S87 



became Knight & Robinson. Mr. Knight was 
elected Town Clerk of Laconia in 1875, ^"<i 
served two years. . In 1883 he was elected County 
Treasurer, and was re-elected in 1885. He served 
in the State LeLjislature of 1889, and was elected 




w. F. KNKurr. 

to the State Senate from the Sixth District in 
1894. Two years later he was made (Quartermaster- 
General on the staff of Governor lUisiel. He is 
a Thirty-second Degree Mason, has filled all the 
chairs in Chapter and Council and Grand Council, 
and is Grand High Priest of the last-named body. 
In politics he is a Republican. In 1S72, Mr. 
Knight married Fannie E. Taylor. 



MACKEV, EnwARD D., Berlin, is one of the 
best known of the Catholic Clergy of New Hamp- 
shire. He is a native of Ireland, where he was 
educated in one of the leading colleges. He 
came to this country when a young man, and 
after his ordination became connected with St. 
Joseph's Cathedral, Manchester, serving first as 
Assistant and then as Rector. He took a whole- 
souled interest in the welfare of the parish, de- 
voting much of his attention to the development 
of its schools, and being active Principal of the 
girls' school. In Manchester he was Director of 
the Holy Name Society and the Rosary Society. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Fatlier Mackey was the first Chaplain of the An- 
cient Order of Hibernians in Manchester. He had 
long been identified with the career of Homo Rule 
for Ireland ; and during his residence in Manches- 
ter he was influential in bringing about the visit to 




E. D. MACKEV. 

the city of the Hon. William 0']',rien and the Hon. 
T. D. Sullivan, an event which led to one of the 
greatest demonstrations, and the raising of a sub- 
scription of three thousand dollars to aid the cause 
they represented. Father Mackey in his clerical 
labors at St. Joseph's proved himself an indefatiga- 
ble worker, and one possessed of the true apos- 
tolic spirit. In December, 1893, he was assigned 
to Berlin, and in that rapidly growing city his 
labors have again been crowned with deserved 
success. Here he has erected a magnificent brick 
church of Gothic design, a commodious parochial 
residence, the whole costing about thirty-five 
thousand dollars, the greater part of which, 
through his untiring efforts, has already been 
cleared of debt. The church property in his 
parish is the most beautiful and most valuable in 
northern New Hampshire. During his adminis- 
tration of the parish, numerous converts have been 
received into the church. He takes a warm 
interest in the upbuilding of the new city, and in 
everything tending to the material and social well- 
being of its residents. 



M.\RVIN, William Edward, Lawyer, Ports- 
mouth, was born in that town, January i, 1872, 
son of William and Eliza Salter (Anderson) Mar- 
vin. He attended the private and public schools 
in Portsmouth, went to Harvard University, and 
was graduated from its Law School in 1893 with 
degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the Bar of 
New Hampshire at the July term of that 3'ear. 
From the beginning his practice has been asso- 
ciated with Frink & Batchelder, being taken into 
partnership in the spring of 1894, when the firm 
became Frink, Batchelder & Marvin. In Septem- 
ber of that year, upon the death of Charles E. 
Batchelder, Mr. Marvin formed a partnership with 
the Hon. J. S. H. Frink, under the firm name of 
Frink &: Marvin, which still continues. He was 
admitted to practice in Ignited States Courts in 
September, 1896. Mr. Marvin was Chairman of 
the Board of Selectmen of Newcastle for three 
years, i894-'97. Corporation Counsel for the town, 
and he is a member of the .Southern New Hamp- 
shire Bar Association ; Powwow Club, Harvard 
LTniversity Law School; Warwick Club of Ports- 
mouth, and a life member of Harvard Law School 




W. E. MARVIN. 

Association. He is a Communicant of St. John's 
Episcopal Church, Portsmouth. He was married, 
June 24, 1896, to Susan Roby Bent of Wayland, 
Massachusetts. He has one son : William Bent 
Marvin. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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MEAD, Edwin Doak, Editor of the New Eng- 
land Magazine, Boston, was born in Chesterfield, 
Cheshire county, New Hampshire, September 29. 
1849, SO" °f Bradley and Sarah (Stone) Mead. He 
was a farmer's boy, with a keen liking for books 
and a taste for study, which stood him in good 
stead not only as a pupil in the country schools, 
but also when, upon quitting school, he became a 
clerk in the store of his brother-in-law in Chester- 
field. There his duties did not occupy all his 
time, and his leisure was devoted to reading and 
study. Moreover, he soon took to writing, one 
result being a little magazine written out each 
month, made up of original essays and tales. 
Among his relatives in the neighboring town of 
Brattleborough, Vermont, were Larkin G. Mead, 
who became a noted sculptor, William Mead, sub- 
sequently one of the well known architects, 
McKim, Mead & White, and Eleanor Mead, who 
married William Dean Howells. Edwin Mead and 
the novelist first met soon after the return of the 
latter from his consulship in Venice. They became 
warm friends, a fact which had much to do with 
shaping the subsequent life-work of Mr. Mead, for 
Mr. Howells secured for him a place in the Boston 
counting room of Ticknor & Fields, where he 
remained for nine years, and not only gained a 
practical knowledge of business, but made the 
acquaintance of many of the literary men of Bos- 
ton. In 1875 Mr. Mead went abroad to prepare 
himself for the ministry of the Episcopal Church ; 
but his theological views undergoing a change 
through fuller acquaintance with New England 
Transcendentalism and English Broad Church teach- 
ings, he withdrew from the Church in 1876. Much 
of the time of the five years he spent in Europe 
was devoted to study at O.xford, Cambridge, and 
Leipzig, and to work in the British Museum. 
During this time he contributed a number of arti- 
cles to American magazines on the English Broad 
Churchmen, and he wrote much on other topics. 
After his return to this country, he edited, in 1881, 
" Faith and Freedom," a collection of sermons by 
Stopford Brooke in England, and in the same year 
published his first book, " The Philosophy of Car- 
lyle," followed three years later by " Martin 
Luther : a Study of Reformation." Mr. Mead also 
lectured in the East and West on literary, histori- 
cal, philosophical, and political subjects. He be- 
came one of the most active members of the I'Vee 
Religious Association, and took an active part in 
the forwarding of popular educational movements. 



Among other things he developed the famous Old 
South Work, lectures and studies in history and 
politics for young people, in the Old South Meeting- 
house, a work founded and maintained by the late 
Mrs. Hemenway, and he has prepared the "Old 



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South Leaflets" publi.'ihed in connection with the 
work, chiefly reproductions of original papers, with 
historical and biographical notes of much value. 
These leaflets have had a wide circulation through- 
out the country, and attracted much favorable 
comment from educators, writers, and students. 
Mr. Mead joined the New England Magazine in 
18S9 as its Associate Editor, with Rev. Edward 
Everett Hale, who had undertaken its conduct with 
a view to making it a popular vehicle for spreading a 
knowledge of New England history. Upon F)r. 
Hale's retirement at the end of the year, Mr. Mead 
became Chief Editor, a post he has held ever 
since. In his service with this magazine he has 
broadened his reputation and shown high capacity 
for editorial work, while he has found time in 
addition for contributions to other periodicals. He 
was one of the founders of the Massachusetts 
Society for Promoting Good Citizensliip, and has 
served for several years as its President. He was 
one of the founders of the Twentieth Century 
Club of Boston, and is President of its Council. 
He has been active in movements for municipal 



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MEN OF 



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reform, has borne a part in national as well as 
local conferences, and was the first Secretary of 
the Boston Municipal I-eague. Besides his con- 
tributions to magazines, Mr. Mead's later publica- 
tions include "The Roman Catholic Church and 
the Public Schools," 1889; "The Constitution of 
the United States with Historical and Bibliograph- 
ical Notes and Outlines for Study," and " Outline 
Studies of Holland," published by the National 
Bureau of ITnity Clubs. He is a constant speaker 
upon the platform. His lectures have dealt with a 
wide range of subjects including " Puritanism," 
"The American Poets," "The English Common- 
wealth," " ]_)ante," "Immanuel Kant," " Carlyle 
and Emerson," "The Study of History," and 
" Representative (Government." 



N.ASH, John P... Lawyer, Center Conway, was 
born ill WindlKim, Maine, May 17, 1848, son of 
Barzillia and Lavinia (Hicks) Nash. He attended 
the public schools of his native town and later took 
a course at the Academy in (Toiham, Maine. He 
then read law with Joel Eastman, and was admitted 




He is one of the most eloquent political speakers 
in the state. He has long been a member of the 
Board of Education and has been most earnest in 
advancing the educational interests of his town. In 
politics he is a Democrat, and has been twice a 
candidate for ("ongress. He was County Solicitor 
for four years and a member of the Constitutional 
Convention in 18S9. Member of the New Hamp- 
shire Legislature in 1S91 and '93. 



MURKL.AND, Charles Sumnkr, President of 
the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the 
Mechanic Arts, Durham, was born in Lowell, Mas- 
sachusetts, May 20, 1856, son of John and Jane 
(Lambert) Murkland. He received his early edu- 
cation in the public sciiools of his native city, grad- 
uating from the High School in 1S72. From this 




C. S. !Wl'RKL.\ND. 

time until 1877, he worked as an engraver in the 
Hamilton Print \\'orks. He then entered Middle- 
bury College, and received the degree of A. B. in 
1 88 1, and of A. I\L in 1S84. He was graduated 
from the Harvard Divinity School in 1883, with 
the degree of B. D., and took a post-graduate course 
at Andover Seminary the following year. He was 
to the Bar at Concord in .\ugust, 1878, being one ordained for the ministry at the Third Congrega- 
of the first applicants coming under the rules for tional ciiurch, Chicopee, ]\Lassachusetts, in June, 
examination and admission of students. Since his 1884, and two years later, in June, 1886, was in- 
admission, he has practiced in Center Conway, be- stalled as Pastor of the Franklin Street church of 
ing active in all the courts of the county and state. Manchester, New Hampshire, where he remained 



JOHN r.. NASH. 



MEN OF IM^Or.RKSS. 



189 



until called to the Presidency of the New Hamp- 
shire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 
Arts. He was inaugurated in July. T893. Mr. Murk- 
land received the degree of I'h. 1>.. from Dartmouth 
College in 1893. On July 30, 18S4, he was mar- 
ried to Helen Mary Tupper. Tiiey have one 
daughter: Marie Murkland, born December 16, 
1887. 

PEIRCE, George Walton, Physician, Winches- 
ter, was born in that town, April 24, 1833, son of 
Hosea and Verlina (Putnam) Peirce. His father 




G. W. I'EIRCE. 

was a physician and practiced in Winchester from 
1828 until his death at the age of ninety-two. The 
subject of this sketch was educated in the schools 
of his native town, in the Academies at Townshend, 
Vermont, and Sherburn Falls, Massachusetts, and 
at the New England Institute for young men at 
New York city. He was graduated from lierkshire 
Medical College in 1854, and in the same year 
began practice in Winchester, where he has since 
remained. Eroni April 18, 1864. until the close of 
the Civil War, he was Surgeon of the First New 
Hampshire Cavalry, and Surgeon-General on the 
staff of Governor Moody Currier. He is President 
of the town Board of Health, President of the 
Board of Trustees of the Public Library, President 
of the Poard of Education and of the Ashuelot 



Valley Electric Light, Heat, and Power Company. 
He was a member of the state [..egislature in 1875, 
and of the Senate in 1891. While in the latter 
body he was Chairman of the Committee on Rail- 
roads. He is a Trustee of the New Hampshire 
Asylum for the Insane, and Past Commander of 
Post No. ig, Grand Army of the Republic, Depart- 
ment of New Hampshire. Doctor Peirce is a Repub- 
lican, and has been active in politics since the cast- 
ing of his first ballot fur John C. Fremont. He 
married Maria C, daughter of William Follett of 
Winchester. They have four children : Alexander 
P., Susan Putnam, now Mrs. Walter O. Stebbins of 
Hinsdale, Abbie E., now Mrs. Edward C. Thomp- 
son of Winchester, and Philip W. Peirce. 



ORDWAV, Nehemiah Geor(;e, E.\-Governor of 
Dakota, Warner, was born in that town, November 
28, 182S, son of Nehemiah and Mary (Flanders) 
( )rdway. His father was a farmer, and his mother 
the daughter of Isaiah Flanders, who owned a 
large farm, included in wiiich was much of the 
territory now occupied by Warner village. It was 
upon this farm that Mr. Ordway passed many of 
his early years, soon becoming the acli\'e manager 
of the property. He still owns a large share of 
the homestead. Pefore he had attained his major- 
ity, Mr. Ordway had sought other outlets for his 
energy, and had engaged in mercantile business in 
Warner, where he rebuilt stores iu Union Block. 
He remained in business in Warner for several 
years, and took an active part in the affairs of the 
town. In 1855 and '56 served as Assistant Clerk and 
Sergeantat-Arms of the New Hampshire Legisla- 
ture. At the close of these sessions was appointed 
by Governor William Haile, Sheriff of Merrimack 
county for the term of five years, and thereupon he 
removed to Concord, where he also served as City 
Marshal and Collector of Ta.xes. In early man- 
hood, Mr. Ordway was a Democrat, but when the 
Republican party was organized, he became identi- 
fied with it, and was for many years associated 
with William E. Chandler and the late Edward H. 
Rollins in the management of the party affairs, 
serving as Chairman of the Republican State Com- 
mittee. In the Lincoln campaign of i860, as 
Chairman of the Republican State Committee and 
Chief Marshal, he took ten thousand men from 
this state to participate in the great " Wide Awake " 
campaign demonstration in Boston. When the 
war broke out, Mr. Ordway was .Sheriff of Merri- 
mack county, but his services were called for by 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the Governor, who commissioned him Colonel, and 
detailed him to make arrangements for forwarding 
the first regiments raised in the state. In 1861, 
President Lincoln appointed him General Agent of 
the Post-office Department and Superintendent of 
Mail Transportation for the Si.x New England 
States, which duties he performed until December, 
1862, when he resigned to accept the office of 
Sergeant-at-Arms and Paymaster of the National 
House of Representatives at Washington. He 
was elected to this important position at the open- 
ing of the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was five 
times re-elected, serving for twelve years, and 
during this historic period becoming intimately 




N. O. ORDWAY. 

acquainted with no less than twelve hundred Sena- 
tors and Representatives. At the same time Mr. 
Ordvvay became interested in the affairs of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia and business matters of the Dis- 
trict. He aided in organizing and became one of 
the principal stockholders in the Washington Mar- 
ket Company, of which he was for eight years 
President, and still spends a large share of each 
year in the capital city. In the spring of 1875. he 
was elected Representative to the State Legislature 
from Warner, being the first Republican sent from 
that town. He was again elected in 1876 and 
1877, was a Delegate to the Constitutional Con- 
vention of 1876, and was elected a State Senator 
in 1879. President Hayes appointed him Gov- 



ernor of the Territory of Dakota in May, 1S80, and 
this office he held for four busy years, being 
actively engaged not only in conducting the official 
affairs of the territorial government, but in superin- 
tending the erection of many public buildings, 
including the State House at Bismarck and peni- 
tentiaries, asylums, schools, and universities at dif- 
ferent places. He established the First National 
Bank at Pierre, and afterwards the Capital 
National Bank at Bismarck. His early experience 
in the organization and management of the Kear- 
sarge National and Savings Banks in Warner stood 
him in good stead, and he was the first President 
of each of these new banks in the West. So ener- 
getic was he while in Dakota that his health was 
considerably impaired by his labors, and upon his 
return to his old home, he was obliged in a 
measure to curtail his activities. Nevertheless, he 
is still a pretty well preserved busy man, for 
besides his large interests in New Hampshire and 
his interests in \\'ashington, he has important busi- 
ness interests in both the Dakotas, and owns a 
residence in Bismarck as well as one in Washing- 
ton. Governor Ordway has always been interested 
in agriculture, and has developed his estate of four 
or five hundred acres, which stretches for nearly 
two miles along the Warner river, and includes the 
" River Bow Park," one of the oldest fair grounds 
in New England. Ex-Governor Ordway has been 
an enthusiastic breeder of fine horses, has taken a 
very important part in forwarding the interests of 
agricultural societies, for whose annual fairs he 
furnishes accommodations at his " River Bow 
Park," and organized the Merrimack County 
Grange Fair, which is held on the same grounds. 
He is a Mason of the Thirty-second Degree and 
Knights Templar, and a member of Warner and 
Merrimack County Pomona Granges. In religion 
he formerly was affiliated with the Ifniversalists, 
but while a resident of Washington in war times 
became a strong adherent of the Rev. Dr. Byron 
Sunderland of the First Presbyterian Church, with 
which he has since retained his connection, and 
has served as President of the Congregation since 
Dr. Talmage became Associate Pastor. Governor 
Ordway was married, October g, 1848, to Nancy 
Ann, daughter of Daniel Bean, a prominent resi- 
dent of Warner, who was the owner of large lumber 
interests, and vi'ho built and operated the mills 
near the present \\'aterloo Railroad station, other- 
wise known as Bean's Mills. The Governor had 
three children : Mabel, wife of Colonel E. L. Whit- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



191 



ford, formerly United States Pension Agent for this 
district ; Colonel George L. Ordway (deceased), who 
married a niece of the late Vice President Colfax, 
and was an attorney at Warner; and Florence (de- 
ceased), wife of F'rank G. VVilkins, an attorney of 
Washington, District of Columbia. Governor Ord- 
way was admitted to the Par in the Supreme Court 
of what now comprises the new states of North and 
South Dakota, and gave his personal attention to 
the construction and financial management of all the 
Public Buildings in both these new and prosperous 
states, as will be seen by his business cards printed 
herewith. 

OFFIC].\L SERVICE. 

1S551 Clerk New Hampshire Legislature. 

1S56 to '60. — High Sheriff and Marshal. 

1S60 to '62. — U. S. Inspector and Colonel. 

1S62. Elected Sergeant-at-Arnis and Paymaster, jSth Con- 
gress ; re-elected 39th, 4Qth, 41st, 42d, and 43d Con- 
gresses. 

1S75 to 'So. — Elected N. H. House, Constitutional Convcntiun and 
State Senate. 

18S0. Appointed Governor of Dakota in May, 1S80, served 

until July, 1SS4. Recommended and approved 
acts for locating and erecting Insane Hospitals at 
Yankton and Jamestovirn: Penitentiaries at Sioux 
Falls and Bismarck ; Universities at Vermilion 
and Grand Forks ; Normal Schools at Spearhsh 
and Madison ; Deaf Mute Schools at Sioux Falls ; 
Agricultural Colleges at Brookings and Fargo ; 
Reformatory Institution at Plankington, and Cajj- 
itol Buildings at Bismarck. 



ROLLINS, Montgomery, Banker, Boston, was 
born in Concord, New Hampshire, August 25, 
1867, son of Edward H. and Ellen Elizabeth 
(West) Rollins. He comes of a family which is 
one of the oldest and most distinguished in the 
state, the name Rollins being prominent in the 
records of almost every town in southeastern New 
Hampshire. Most if not all of the bearers of the 
naine are descendants of James Rollins (or Raw- 
lins, as the name is sometimes spelled), one of the 
pioneers of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who came to 
America in 1632 and settled at "Bloody Point" in 
old Dover, a dozen years later, where he died about 
1690. In the early Indian-French wars and the great 
Revolutionary contest, his descendants bore their 
full share. Ichabod, the eldest son of James Rol- 
lins, an ancestor of Edward H., was murdered by 
Indians while on the way from Dover to Oyster 
River (now Durham), in 1707. The second son of 
James, Thomas, afterwards a resident of Exeter, 
was a member of the "dissolved assembly" of 
1683, which took up arms under Edward Gove and 
attempted to begin an insurrection against the royal 



Governor, Cranfield. Thomas Rollins was one of 
those subsequently tried for treason and sentenced 
to death, but was eventtially pardoned. In the 
Revolutionary Army a score and a half of the 
descendants of James Rollins were engaged in 
active service. Jeremiah Rollins, the only son of 
Ichabod, was one of the petitioners for the incor- 
poration of Somersworth as a separate parish. He 
died a few years before the Revolution, and his son, 
Ichabod, became an active champion of the peo- 
ple's cause, was a member of the Convention at 
Exeter in 1775, served on the committee to prepare 
ways and means for furnishing troops, and on the 
committee of supplies ; was a memlier of the Con- 




MUNTGOMERV ROLLINS. 

vention which resolved itself into an independent 
state government in 1776, and sat in the Legisla- 
ture in October following. From 1776 to 1784 he 
was Judge of Probate, being the first to hold this 
office under the new government. Subsequently he 
was a member of the Executive Council. He died 
in 1800. From him the town of Rollinsford, which 
was made from a portion of Somersworth, received 
its name. John, the eldest of his four sons, was 
grandfather of Daniel G. Rollins, Judge of Probate 
for the County of Strafford, from 1857 to 1866. 
Edward Ashton Rollins, son of Daniel, was Speaker 
of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 
in 1861 and 1862, Commissioner of Internal Reve- 



MKN (»1 I'R()(;KESS. 



nue under President Johnson. James Rollins, third 
son of Ichabod 2d, and grandfather of Edward H., 
settled upon the farm in Rollinsford, which has 
since remained the family homestead. Daniel Rol- 
lins, his eighth child, married Mary, eldest daughter 
of Ebenezer Plumer, and was the father of Edward 
H. Rollins, who was the father of the subject 
of this sketch. Montgomery Rollins attended the 
public schools of Concord, the district school in 
Rollinsford, private schools in Washington, District 
of Columbia, and studied for three years under 
Moses Woolson at Concord, titting for the Institute 
of Technology, Boston, where he subsequently took 
a three years' course, completing it in 1888. His 
first business venture was as a clerk in the banking 
house of E. H. Rollins &: Son of Concord, and after 
six months he went West, entering the Denver office 
of the same firm. He returned East to take part 
in the settlement of his father's estate, and about 
the first of Januar)-, 1890, went to Boston, taking 
the management of the Boston branch of the house 
of E. H. Rollins & Sons, and becoming at that 
time a Director and Secretary, offices he still holds. 
In 1S92 the Boston office became the main office of 
the banking house, and so remains. Mr. Rollins is 
the author of a number of publications of great 
interest to the banking fraternity. Among them is 
the " Rollins Tables of Bond Values," now in its 
eighth edition, and the " Montgomery Cipher Code," 
now in its fourth edition, both of which have met 
a very hearty reception and have proved of great 
value. Mr. Rollins is Secretary of the Chestnut 
Hill Golf Club, and a member of its Executive 
Committee. He is a member of the Chestnut Hill 
Club and the Technology Club. He was married 
October 28, i8gi, to Grace Webster Seave}', daugh- 
ter of the Hon. J. Frank Seavey of Dover. They 
have one daughter: Ellen West Rollins. 



He next entered into partnership with W. M. Chase, 
and when the latter was appointed to the Supreme 
Bench, the firm became Streeter, Walker & Chase. 
Mr. Streeter is a legal specialist, dealing in cases 
involving large corporate interests, and was the 



STRKEFER, Fr.'KNK Shkrwin, Lawyer, Con- 
cord, was born in Charlestown, Vermont, August 5, 
1853, son of Daniel and Julia W. Streeter. He 
received his education in the public schools in St. 
Johnsbury, Vermont, and at the Academy in the 
same place. He entered Dartmouth College as a 
Sophomore, being graduated in 1874. After hold- 
ing for a time the position of Principal of the 
Ottumwa (Iowa) High School, he read law with 
A. P. Carpenter of Bath, and was admitted to the Bar 
in March, 1877. He practiced six months at Orford, 
then removing to Concord and forming a partner- 
ship with J. H. Albin, which continued one year. 




FR.\NK S. STREETER. 

General Counsel of the Concord iv: Montreal Rail- 
road, prior to its lease to the Boston & Maine 
Railroad, and is now actively engaged as Counsel 
for that corporation. He is a Trustee of Dart- 
mouth College. In 1S85 he represented the 
Fourth Ward of Concord in the Legislature, and 
presided at the Republican State Convention in 
1892. Mr. Streeter was married November 14, 
1S77, to Lillian, daughter of A. P. Carpenter, then of 
Bath, subsequently Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court. They have two children. 

SULLOWAV, Cyrus Adams, Member of Con- 
gress, Manchester, was born in Grafton, New 
Hampshire, June 8, 1839. He received a common 
school and academic education, and studied law 
with the late Austin F. Pike, at Franklin, being 
admitted to the Bar in 1863. In January of the 
following year he began the practice of law in 
Manchester, which has since been his home. Mr. 
.Sulloway has long been active in politics. He was 
a member of the New Hampshire House of Repre- 
sentatives in i872-'73, and from 1887 to 1893, 



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inclusive. He was elected as a Republican to the 
Fifty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the 
Fifty-fifth, receiving twenty-five thousand, six hun- 
dred and sixty-one votes, against thirteen thousand, 
nine hundred and twenty-eight cast for John IS. 
Nash, Democrat ; six hundred and fourteen for 
Henry E. Brawn, Prohibitionist ; three hundred 
and twenty-six for Benjamin T. Whitehouse, 
Socialist Labor ; one hundred and twenty-one for 
Charles W. Coolidire, National Democrat; and one 




C. A. SULLOWAY. 

hundred and ele\en for Josiaii A. Whittier, Peo- 
ple's Party. Mr. Sulloway was one of the strong- 
est advocates in Congress of War with Spain, for 
the liberation of Cuba. 

S.ARGENT, Frank Hknk\, Physician, Pitts- 
field, was born in that town October 31, 1861, son 
of Charles H. and Almira (King) Sargent. The 
first ancestor of his family in this country was Wil- 
liam Sargent, who emigrated to this country from 
England in 1638. Benjamin Sargent, great-great- 
grandson of William, who served as a corporal in 
the Revolutionary War under Washington, was 
born March 27, 1760, and was ordained as a Bap- 
tist minister of Bow, New Hampshire, October 11, 
1797, removed to Pittsfield, and settled over the 
Congregational Church, March 10, 1801. He 
united this church with the liaptist Society, and 



continued to preach for the two until March 15, 
iSiS, when he was seized by apoplexy while in the 
pulpit, and died from the effects of the attack. He 
left two sons and one daughter, one son becoming 
a well-known clergyman. The daughter married 
F"rederick Sanborn, and her son, MajorGeneral 
John B. Sanborn, commanded all of the United 
States forces west of the Mississippi River, during 
the great Rebellion. Walter Sanborn, his grand- 
son, a cousin of the subject of this sketch, is the 
United States Judge whose recent decision in the 
Pacific Railroad cases saved the Government seve- 
ral million dollars. Moses L. Sargent, the other 
son of the Reverend Benjamin Sargent, had two 
children. His son, Charles H. Sargent, born Sep- 
tember 15, 1S25. had six children, the youngest of 




F. H. SARCKNT. 

whom is the suliject of this sketch. When Doctor 
Sargent was but ten years of age his father died, 
and he at once took charge, of the farm, under the 
guidance of his mother. He was educated in the 
common schools, and at Pittsfield Academy. His 
professional studies were begun in the medical 
department at Bowdoin, and continued at Dart- 
mouth, from which he was graduated in the class 
of 1889. He then took a post-graduate course in 
New York city, after which he returned to Pitts- 
field, where he established a practice which is 
large and steadily increasing. He is known as a 



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man of great iiulepeiidence in thought and action, 
yet has hosts of friends and few enemies. He 
has occupied all the chairs in Suncook Lodge, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is 
a very active member. He still retains his interest 
in fanning, has added many acres to the old home- 
stead, and has brought it up to the condition in 
which it is one of the most productive farms in the 
Suncook Valley. In 1894 he bought the Hill prop- 
erty at the corner of Carroll and Depot streets, and 
at once remodeled Ifce large building, and in the 
following year he built another business block upon 
adjoining land, thus making him one of the largest 
real estate owners in the town. Doctor Sargent 
has great energy and executive ability, and has, 
unaided, attained marked success at the age of 
thirty-six, through continuous application. He has 
for years looked carefully after the needs of his 
mother, in her declining years. In politics Doc- 
tor Sargent is an Independent. He was married 
July 25, 1897,10 Nellie, daughter of S. J., and Mar- 
garet Denison Winslow of Pittsfield. 



SMITH, William Benj.amin Tvnc, Charles- 
town, was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, 
March 9, 1842, the third son of the late Reverend 
Henry Sumner and Mary (Hilliard) Smith. Mr. 
Smith is a scholar and clergyman by heredity, as 
well as by education and preference, coming from 
New England stock, which in an unbroken line for 
more than a century consecrated its members to 
the service of the church. His father, the Rever- 
end Henry Sumner Smith, after a collegiate and 
divinity course at Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, 
was made Deacon by Bishop Mcllvaine in that 
town, and was ordained Priest by the same Bishop 
in Trinity church, Cleveland. After laying the 
foundation of what have since become flourishing 
parishes in that Diocese, he served a diligent and 
faithful Rectorship over the old historic Union 
church at West Claremont, New Hampshire. On 
the maternal side Mr. Smith is of Scotch descent. 
His mother's father was the Reverend Timothy 
Hilliard, of Gorham, Maine. His great-grand- 
father, the Reverend Timothy Hilliard, born in 
Kensington, New Hampshire, in 1746, was a grad- 
uate of Harvard College in 1764, and was ordained 
Pastor of the Congregational church at Barnstable, 
in 1771 ; his grandfather, the Reverend Timothy 
Hilliard, Jr., born in 1776, was also a Harvard man 
in the class of 1793. He was ordered Deacon 
in Trinity church, Boston, by Bishop Bass, and 



ordained Priest by Bishop Jarvis of Connecticut, 
June 6, 1805. That the Hilliard family in this 
country dates from the earliest colonial period and 
was among the first to settle in Massachusetts, is 
evidenced by the name Hilliard having been be- 
stowed upon one of the principal streets of the old 
college town of Cambridge. Mr. Smith fitted for 
college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, and 
was graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 
1866. He studied Divinity at the General Theo- 
logical Seminary of New York city, completing the 
three years' course in 1871. While yet a student 
at the seminary, he was ordained Deacon, Decem- 
ber 19, 1869, by the late Bishop Chase, First 
Bishop of New Hampshire, and after completing 
his course of study in Divinity he was ordained 
Priest by Horatio Potter, Bishop of the Diocese of 
New York. His early training for active life began 
by teaching in the public schools of Claremont. 
He was afterwards Principal of the High School of 
Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a Civil Engineer on the 
Fort Wayne tv Grand Rapids Railroad. In the 
summer of 187 1 he went to Europe, anticipating 




U. 1;. 1. SMITH. 

much enjoyment in making a tour of the Old 
World, but was called home early in the following 
year by his father's fatal illness. He succeeded 
his father as Rector of Union church, West Clare- 
mont, assuming the duties June 23, 1872. He 



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established the Mission and erected the Church 
of St. John the Baptist at VVolfboro Junction, New 
Hampshire, in 1876. Two years later he accom- 
plished a similar purpose in advancing the work of 
a Mission already established at Woodsville, New 
Hampshire, and was instrumental in building St. 
Luke's church in that town. He accepted the 
Rectorship of St. James's church, Keene, in Sep- 
tember, 1S84, and in 1886 became Rector of Trin- 
ity church in Tilton. His exceptionally happy 
marriage to Nellie S. liaker, only surviving daughter 
of the late Jonathan and Harriet M. (V\'illard> 
Baker of Charlestown, occurred June 27, 18SS, in 
St. Luke's church, Charlestown, the Right Rever- 
end \V. W. Niles, liishop of New Hampshire, offi- 
ciating. Soon after this event Mr. Smith was in- 
vited to become Rector of St. Luke's, and after 
serving acceptably for four years resigned the 
charge. \\'hile a portion of each year is passed in 
travel and their summers are spent in their beauti- 
ful camp in the Adirondacks, Mr. and Mrs. Smith 
continue to make Charlestown their permanent 
home. The abilities of Mr. Smith as a leader and 
organizer, as well as in executive directions, aside 
from his earnestness and eloquence as a preacher, 
have long and repeatedly been recognized by the 
Bishop and clergy of the Diocese of New Hamp- 
shire in his elections to responsible offices and 
committees ; nor are his talents confined to the 
ministry, but are equally apparent along educa- 
tional, official and financial lines. He has accom- 
plished efficient work as Superintendent of Schools 
in Claremont : as Deputy to the General Conven- 
tion of the Protestant Episcopal church for several 
terms of three years each, as well as in his position 
during a period of great financial depression as a 
Director of the Connecticut River National Bank, 
and as a Director of the Claremont National Bank 
in Claremont. Mr. Smith is a man of culture and 
genial temperament and makes hosts of friends. 
He is quick in his perceptions, earnest and enthu- 
siastic in all his undertakings, a lover of art and 
music, and a brilliant conversationalist. 



lished it for twelve years. For the past fourteen 
years he has been in the drug business. Mr. San- 
born was a member of the Legislature in 1885. 
He is a member of the Amoskeag Veterans of 
Manchester, New Hampshire, of which he is Assis- 



SANBORN, Gkukck Fkeem.an, Druggist, Mere- 
ilith, was born in that place August 17, 1857, son 
of George and Sophronia D. (Stockbridge) San- 
born. He received his education in the public 
schools of his native town, at the New Hampton 
Literary Institution, and at Tilton Seminary. In 
1880 he established the Meredith News, and pub- 




i;K(i. F. .s.\xi;uRX. 

taut Surgeon : a member of Manchester Lodge, 
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and of tiie 
Royal Arcanum. In politics he is a Democrat. 
He married I )ecember 10, 1884, Charlotte |. 
French. They ha\e one son : Royden \V. Sanborn. 

TUCKER, W'lLLiA.M Jewett, President of Dart- 
mouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, was born 
in Griswold, Connecticut, July 13, 1839, son of 
Henry and Sarah (Lester) Tucker, the seventh in 
descent from Robert Tucker, who came over in 
1635 and settled at ^\'eymouth, Massachusetts. 
The family is descended from John Tucker, 1066. 
He obtained his early education at the Academy of 
Plymouth, and Kimball Union Academy of Men- 
den. He became a student at Dartmouth, and 
was graduated in the class of 1861. For two years 
after his graduation he taught at Columbus, Ohio, 
and then took up his theological studies at Ando- 
ver Seminary, from which he was graduated in 
1866. He was ordained and installed Pastor of 
the Franklin-Street Congregational Church of Man- 
chester in 1867, a pastorate he held until 1875, 



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when he was called to the Madison Square Pres- 
byterian Cliurch in New York city. There he 
remained until 1880, when he was appointed Ear- 
tlett Professor of Honiileticb in the Andover 
Theological Seminary, where he remained for thir- 



Alice Lester and Margaret Tucker. He was again 
married, June 23, 1887, to Charlotte B. Cheever. 
P.y his second marriage he has one child : Eliza- 
beth Washburn Tucker. 




\V. J. TUCKER. 

teen years, being elected President of Dartmouth 
College in 1893. Dr. Tucker received the degree 
of D. D. from Dartmouth in 1875 : of LL. D. from 
Williams in 1894, and LL. I), from Yale in 1896. 
He was Phi Peta Kappa Orator of Harvard Lhii- 
versity in 1893, and was Lecturer at the Lowell 
Institute, Boston, in 1894. He was Lecturer on 
the Winckley Foundation, Andover Theological 
Seminary, in 1S97, and Lecturer on the Lyman 
Beecher Foundation, Yale University, in 1898. 
He was one of the Founders and Editors of the 
Andover Review, with which he was connected 
from i8S5-'93. He was the Flounder of the An- 
dover Home, Boston, now known as the South 
End Home, a social settlement. Doctor Tucker is 
widely known as an educator and for his scholarly 
addresses on many occasions of note, both in and 
out of New Hampshire. Under his administration, 
as the head of Dartmouth College, he has been 
attended with marked success, and has been re- 
warded by a great development of the college. 
Doctor Tucker was married, June 22, 1870, to 
Charlotte H. Rogers, who bore him two children : 



THAYER, Wii.MAM FisKE, President of the First 
National 15ank, Concord, was born in Kingston, New 
Hampshire, son of Calvin Thayer. He was edu- 
cated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden. 
He removed to Concord, and became Clerk in the 
post-office, was soon advanced to the position of 
Chief Clerk, and held the place four years. F.nter- 




\V. F. THAVER. 

ing the employ of the First National Bank as a 
Clerk, he was promoted rapidly, and became Cash- 
ier, and finally President. During his connection 
with the bank, the deposits and the surplus have 
been largely increased. The bank has one of the 
best, if not the most spacious, and well-appointed 
banking-rooms in New England. Mr. Thayer is 
also connected as Director with several prominent 
corporations and institutions in the state ; a Direc- 
tor of the Northern New Hampshire Railroad; a 
Trustee of the New Hampshire Asylum for the 
Insane ; was chosen Treasurer of the Republican 
State Committee in 1892, and still holds the posi- 
tion, and since 1S79 has been Treasurer of the 
City of Concord. A Mason and Knights Templar. 
Married Sarah C. Wentworth. 



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WALLACE, RoHERT Mooke, Lawyer, Milford, 
was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, May 2, 
1847, son of Jonas and Mary (Darling) Wallace. 
His father was a well-known merchant of that 
town, his ancestors being among the pioneer set- 
tlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire. He was 
educated in the common school and at the academy 
in his native place ; entered Dartmouth College at 
the age of sixteen, and was graduated in the class 
of '67. Shortly after, he began tiie study of law in 
the office of Mason W. Tappan, afterward Attor- 
ney-General of New Hampshire, and was admitted 
to the Bar in 1S70. The same year he removed to 
Milford, where he formed a partnership with Bain- 
bridge \\'adleigh. United States Senator, which 
continued until the latter removed to Boston. Since 




R. M. WALLACE. 

this time, Mr. Wallace has practiced alone. In 
1877 and 1878 he was a member of the Legis- 
lature and in 18S9, a member of the Constitu- 
tional Convention. He was appointed County 
Solicitor for Hillsborough county in 1883, and 
held the position for ten years, when he was ap- 
pointed by Governor Smith, Associate Justice of 
the Supreme Bench of New Hampshire. He mar- 
ried in .August, 1874, Ella M., daughter of tlie late 



WASON, Edward Hill, Lawyer, Nashua, was 
born in New Boston, New Hampshire, Septem- 
ber 2, 1865, son of George .A. Wason. He was 
educated at tiie Francestown Academy and at 
the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and 
Mechanic Arts, graduating with the degree of B. S. 
in 1886. He read law in the office of George B. 
French of Nashua; later attended lectures at the 
Boston University, where he was graduated in 
1890 with the degree of LL. 11. While pursuing 
his law studies, he taught at the Main street even- 
ing school, being Principal for a time. He was 
admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in March, 
1890, and opened a law office at Nashua. He 
was City Solicitor in 1894 and 1895, and was re- 
elected June I, 1896. He was a member of the 
Common Council in 1896, and was President of 
the City Council from June i, 1896, for two years. 
He is Treasurer of the Nashua Driving Park Asso- 
ciation, a member of the Nashua Boat Club and 
City Guards Club, Trustee of the Nashua Hospital 
Association and of the John M. Hunt Home, and 
President and Director of the Tarnic Ice Company. 






r^ 




H. WASON. 



In 1SS7, he was chosen Sergeant-at-Arms of the 
Slate Senate and was re-elected in 1S93, andwas 
A. F. Hutchinson of Milford. They have three Clerk of the same body in 1895. He was elected 
children : Edward D., Robert B., and Helen Wal- a member of the Nashua lioard of Education in 
lace. June, 1895, and is President of the Board. He is 



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at present in partnership with George !•'. Jackson, 
the firm name being Wason & Jackson. The firm 
has a large practice and a brilliant future before it. 
Mr. Wason is a member of Rising Sun Lodge, 
.•\ncient Free and Accepted Masons, being Past 
Master of the Lodge, a member of Meriden Sun 
Royal Arch Chapter, Israel Hunt Council, and St. 
George Conimandery, Knights Templar, Edward A. 
Raymond Consistory, Aleppo Temple of Boston, 
and Nashua Lodge Knights of Pythias. Mr. Wason 
is unmarried. 



WEEKS, JiJHN WiNGATE, Banker, Boston, 
Massachusetts, was born in Lancaster, New Hamp- 
shire, April II, iS6o, son of William D. and Mary 
Helen (Fowler) Weeks. He is a direct descend- 
ant of Leonard Weeks, who settled in Portsmouth 
(now Greenland), New Hampshire, in 1657. He 
received his education in the public schools and 
academies of his native town. From 1877 to 1881, 
he attended the United States Naval Academy, 
and after his jiraduation. made one cruise as a 




JOHN \V. WEEKS. 

midsliipman on the L'nited States Steamship 
Kitiimond. The years 1S84 and 1885 he spent 
locating Government lands, and surveying old 
Spanish grants in Florida. During the following 
year he was in the real estate business in Orlando, 



Florida, and from 1887 to July i, 1888, he acted 
as Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Immi- 
gration for the Florida Southern Railroad. In 
-August, 1S8S, he removed to Boston to enter the 
banking and brokerage business, and has remained 
there ever since with an office at 53 State street. He 
is a member of the firm of Hornblower lV Weeks, 
who have two memberships in the Boston and one 
in the New York Stock E.xchange. Mr. Weeks 
has been a Director in the Massachusetts National 
Bank, the oldest Bank in New England, since 
1895, and since 1894 has been a Director in the 
Newton Street Railway, and a Director and Vice- 
President of the Central Massachusetts Railroad. 
He is one of the Trustees of the Newton Land and 
Improvement Company, and has been President of 
the Newtonville Trust Company since its organiza- 
tion in March, 1896. In i89o-'92 he commanded 
a division of the Naval Brigade, in i892-'q3 a Bat- 
talion of the Naval Brigade, and since 1894 he has 
commanded the Massachusetts Naval Brigade. 
He is the Senior Naval Militia Officer in the 
L'nited States. In 1S96 President Cleveland 
appointed him a member of the Board of Visitors 
to the United States Naval Academy. Mr. Weeks 
is a member of the Middlesex and New Hamp- 
shire Clubs, of the University Club of Boston, 
being a member of the Admission Committee, of 
the Army and Navy Club of Washington, of the 
Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the 
Society of the War of 1S12. In politics he is a 
Republican. Mr. Weeks was married, October 7, 
1885, to Martha A., daughter of John G. Sinclair. 
They have two children : Katherine S., born 
August 19, 1889, and Charles Sinclair Weeks, born 
June 15, 1893. 



ANNABLE, Edwi.v GriLFORD, Physician, Con- 
cord, was born in Newport, Province of Quebec, 
Canada, December 2, 1840, son of Jacob Merrill 
and Eunice (Dean) Annable. He is of English an- 
cestry, being descended in the paternal line from 
Anthony Annable, who came from County Kent in 
1623 in the ship Ann. and landed in Plymouth. 
After living here for seventeen years, he removed 
to Scituate and later to Barnstable, Massaciiusetts. 
He was known in the colony as " Good Man .Anna- 
ble," and was held in high esteem. Ansel Anna- 
ble, who was in the si.\th generation from .Anthony 
and who was the grandfather of Doctor Annable, 
settled in Groton, New Hampshire, where he lived 
fgr some years until, finding the soil too barren and 



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the prospects too poor to meet the needs of a grow- 
ing famil}-, he moved to Newport in the Province 
of Quebec, Canada, in or about 1820. He settled 
in a complete wilderness, but a few years of per- 
sistent effort served to clear the land of a heavy 
growth of timber and to transform it into one of 
the finest farms of the region. His son, Jacob 
Annable, was about eight years old when the fam- 
ily mo\ed from Groton. He remained on the 
home farm and in January, 1836, married Eunice 
Dean, whose mother was Susan Russ, in direct 
line from Henry Russ who came from Hingham, 
Norfolk county, P.ngland, in 1633 or 1635. The 
family of Jacob Annable consisted of six children, 
three sons and three daughters. Doctor Annable 
was the second son. The years of his boyhood 
and early manhood were spent at school and at 
light farm work. The seven years following were 
spent in New Hampshire and Canada until the 
spring of 1868, when he removed to Concord. For 
a number of years he engaged in various pursuits, 
following no fixed purpose until the summer of 
1877. when, after much serious thought, a plan was 
earnestly considered and faithfully carried out. to 
devote all spare time to study in preparation for 
his future profession. Courses of study were con- 
scientiously pursued, in anatomy, physiology and 
chemistry, and then a lecture course was taken at 
Dartmouth College. The next year was spent at 
the University of \'ermont, where his degree was 
given. Deciding upon Fitzwilliam, New Hamp- 
shire, as a location for practice he there formed a 
partnership with Doctor Silas Cumings, a ripe 
scholar and skillful practitioner. The partnership 
of three years was cut short by the death of Doc- 
tor Cumings, but it was of long enough duration to 
establish the confidence of the people. After 
nearly seven years of practice in Fitzwilliam, he 
removed to Norwich, Vermont, in June, 1S86, at 
the solicitation of relatives there. He very shortly 
built up a good business, extending over a large 
territory in Vermont and New Hampshire. Here 
he had under his care the celebrated case of dry 
gangrene of Gideon Lord, a man seventy-two years 
of age. The gangrene extended to the lower mar- 
gin of the knee-cap, and Doctor Annable cut away 
first the muscle and finally the diseased bones and 
in a short time healing began. In less than six 
months a healthy stub was formed and later a peg 
leg was attached that did excellent service for the 
nine years of life remaining. In June, 1S94, Doc- 
tor Annable removed to C"oncord, desiring a more 



concentrated practice. His health had become 
somewhat impaired by his labors in Norwich. Dur- 
ing the last four years, a good practice has been 
established and a fair promise for the future seems 
in a fair way to be realized. He is a member of 



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E. O. ANNAHLE. 

the New Hampshire Medical Society, also of the 
American .'\ssociation of Physicians and Surgeons, 
and of the \A'hite Ri\er (^"ermont) Medical Society. 
He is an Odd Fellow, a member of Rumford Lodge 
of Concord. Doctor Annable married June 9, 
1863, Louisa Maria F'arwell, of Robinson, Province 
of Quebec, youngest daughter of William Farwell. 
Crown Land Agent of the Government Lands of 
the Province of Quebec. They have four children: 
Edwin Waller, born in Eaton, Province of Quebec, 
May 29, 1864, who married Gertrude Paige of 
Downers Gro\e. Illinois, and who is at present 
Pastor of the First Baptist church of Millegeville, 
Illinois ; Angela Dean, born in Robinson, Province 
of Quebec, April 20, 1866, and who married Henry 
Roberts ; Alice Louisa, born in Concord, New 
Hampshire, April 18, 1874, and who married Cur- 
tis Chamberlin in October, 1894; and Bessie Far- 
well Annable, born in Norwich, X'ermont, Septem- 
ber 30, 1887. Doctor Annable has five grand- 
children: Neil and Lawrence Annable ; Gladys A. 
Roberts, and Harold ('. and Louisa Merle Cham- 
berlin. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



CRANE, John SuMMF.RFiF.i.n, Manufacturer, 
Lakeport, was born in Springfield, Massacliusetts, 
February 3, ICS34, son of Lutlier and Rebecca 
(Manter) Crane. On tlie paternal side he is 
descended from an old famil)' of Canton, Massa- 




J. .s. 'JKANK. 

chusetts ; on the maternal side he traces his 
descent from ancestors resident in Plymouth, 
Massachusetts, and is a direct descendant of Gov- 
ernor Bradford of the Massachusetts Colony. Mr. 
Crane received a common school education and 
attended the Berwick .-Vcademy in Maine. While 
he was at school, his skill in drawing attracted 
attention, and a gentleman, impressed with his 
talent, offered to educate him as an artist. Voung 
Crane, however, did not avail himself of tiiis oppor- 
tunity, but at the age of fifteen shipped on a 
clipper bound for India. The voyage lasted 
twenty-two months, and gave the youth a trip 
around the world, besides curing him of his longing 
for a life at sea. For a year he was busy learning 
the trade of a machinist at Salmon Falls. Then 
he removed first to Lawrence, and then to Lowell, 
where for a year he had charge of a sewing- 
machine factory. Subsequently Mr. Crane resided 
for a time in Manchester. After a Western trip in 
search of a promising business opening, he went to 
Lakeport in 1S57, where he was employed by 
Thomas Appleton in the hosiery business. In 



1862, he formed a partnership with William Pepper, 
the firm being Crane & Pepper, to build knitting 
machines. In 1864, Mr. Crane became Superin- 
tendent of the \\'innepesaukee Hosiery Company, 
in which he was a part owner, and in 1865, having 
meanwhile bought out his partners, sold the works 
to R. M. Bailey. In 1879, he became connected 
with Walter Aiken of Franklin in the proprietor- 
ship of the Gilmore Revolving Diamond Stone 
Dressing Machine. Mr. Ciane in 1872 bought an 
interest in a plant for the manufacture of circular 
knitting machines, the firm being Crane & Peaslee. 
In the following year, Mr. Crane patented a 
machine for making shirts and underwear, and this 
industry was added to the firm's business. In 
1878, the firm became J. S. Crane & Company, 
and in 1890 was incorporated under the name of 
the Crane Manufacturing Company, J. S. Crane, 
President, M. L. Crane, Secretary and Treasurer. 
He represented Laconia in the State Legislature in 
1875, and Gilford in that of 1878. He was one of 
the incorporators and is now a Director of the 
Lake Village Savings Bank; he is a Director and 
Vice-President of the National Bank of Lakeport. 
In politics he is a Republican. He is a Mason 
and belongs to various Masonic bodies up to the 
Thirty-second Degree. Mr. Crane married, in 
1856, Clara J. Smith of Nashua. He has one 
child, Mazellah L. Crane. 



COLE, Edmund Ch.ase, Editor of the Kearsarge 
Independent and Times, Warner, was born in Mil- 
ton Plantation, Maine, October 5, 1845, son of 
Laurenson and Lucinda (Spofford) Cole. He is 
of English descent. His great-grandfather was a 
Revolutionary soldier, and his grandfather and 
father held the ranks, respectively, of Colonel and 
Captain in the state militia. Mr. Cole attended 
the common and select schools in Milton and 
adjacent towns, and prepared for college at Nor- 
way and Hebron Academies. He w-as a student 
at Colby University through Freshman year, but 
took the remainder of the college course at Bow- 
doin, from which he was graduated in the class of 
187 I. In the fall of that year he became the first 
Principal of Simonds Free High School at U'arner, 
a position he held for three years. Mr. Cole began 
the study of law, as supplementary to his educa- 
tion in August, 1874, and continued it for the next 
three years, in the course of which time he taught 
for one term in Marlow Academy and for three 
terms in Contoocook Academy. Altogether he has 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



to his credit as an instructor tliirty-six terms of 
successful work in the schools. In pursuing his 
legal studies, Mr. Cole spent considerable time in 
the office of the late John Y. Mugridge in Concord, 
but though he grounded himself well in the law, he 
never applied for admission to the Bar. In the 
fall of 1878, he bought in Portsmouth the equip- 
ment of a printing-office and removed it to Warner, 
and subsequently began publication of the Kear- 
sarge Independent, the first issue of the paper 
bearing date of April 4, 1884. In the following 
December he bought the subscription list of the 
Hopkinton Times, published at Contoocook, and 
changed his paper's name to the Kearsarge Inde- 
pendent and Times. This journal continues to 
prosper, and is now in the fifteenth year of its pub- 
lication. Mr. Cole has been a member of the 
School Board for many years ; for four terms was 
Supervisor of check list; was Postmaster during 
the last year of President Arthur's administration ; 
and at present is a member of the Board of Health, 
Vice-President of the Trustees of Pillsbury Free 
Library, and a local police officer, and is an ear- 




EDMUND C. COLE. 

nest advocate of all matters pertaining to the pros- 
perity and welfare of the town. In politics he is a 
consistent Republican. lie is a member of Cen- 
tral Lodge, Independent ()rdcr of Odd Fellows, 
Welcome Rebekah Lodge, Warner Orange, Warner's 



Commandery, United Order Golden Cross, and 
Kearsarge Division, Sons of Temperance. In all 
these lodges, except the Rebekahs, he has held the 
principal offices. Mr. Cole married, in January, 
1877, Mrs. Emma B. Quimby, daughter of Asa and 
Sally Pattee. Of this marriage, one child, Sarah 
Adelaide Cole, was born. Mrs. Cole died Septem- 
ber 28, 1882, and August 3, 1889, Mr. Cole mar- 
ried Fanny H. Corey. His children of the second 
marriage are: Edward Everett, born in i8gi; 
Mary Gertrude, born in 1892 ; Thomas Reed, born 
in 1S94; and Nada Lucile Cole, born in 1896. 



FELLOWS, Jo.SEPH Warren, a Leading Mem- 
ber of the New Hampshire Bar, comes from rugged 
English stock on both the paternal and maternal 
sides. Mr. Samuel Fellows, the emigrating ancestor 
of the paternal line, came to Massachusetts from 
Great Bowden, Nottinghamshire, England, and set- 
tled in Salisbury about 1639. He belonged to an 
agricultural race and was styled a planter in the 
colonial records, and became possessed of landed 
property to a considerable extent. The subject of 
this sketch is of the seventh generation in a direct 
line from Samuel Fellows. His great-grandfather, 
Joseph Fellows, served in the second expedition 
against Louisburg, and the powder-horn which he 
carried during that campaign, still in a good state 
of preservation, is in the possession of Mr. Fellows. 
Joseph Fellows removed from Salisbury to the 
town of Andover, New Hampshire, then called 
New Breton, in 1761, being the first settler, and 
for about a year the only resident there. The 
story is, that for a considerable time his only road- 
way from what is now Penacook to Andover was a 
line of spotted trees through the wilderness. A 
nephew bearing the same name, was a member of 
Captain Osgood's company at the battle of Ben- 
nington, and served in the campaign in which the 
battles of Saratoga, Stillwater, and others in that 
vicinity were fought. He has the credit, in the 
annals of those times, of having furnished his own 
gun and other equipments. The son of Joseph 
Fellows, the original settler of Andover, Stephen 
Fellows, and the grandson, John Fellows, were 
born and lived upon the farm which he cleared 
from the wilderness. Joseph Warren Fellows, the 
son of John and Polly Hilton Fellows, was born 
January 15, 1835, on the homestead of Elijah Hil- 
ton, the maternal grandfather. On the mother's 
side his ancestry, the Hiltons, came from England 
some time about 1700, one date fixing the time of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the emigrating ancestors at 169S and another at 
I 703. General Alexander Scamniel Dearborn, whose 
public services are well known to the country, was 
an ancestor upon the mother's side in a direct line. 
Joseph Warren Fellows, the subject of this sketch, 
passed his boyhood much after the manner of New 
Hampshire boys of that time. His father being a 
farmer, he learned the practical lesson of hard 
woik and acquired habits of unremitting industry 
upon the farm and in the lumber swamps. He at- 
tended the common schools of the town and An- 
dover (New Hampshire) Academy, where he com- 
pleted the college preparatory course, entering 
Dartmouth College in the fall of 1854. During 
the winter months of his college course he taught 
schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and 
upon graduation in 1858 became Principal of An- 
dover Academy, where he remained during the 
academic year, i858-'59. Being of an enterpris- 
ing and self-reliant disposition, he removed to 
Georgia in September, 1859, where he accepted the 
position of Principal of the Classical Department 
in the Brownwood Institute at Lagrange. In the 
spring of i860 he became the Principal of the 
Marietta, Georgia, Latin .School, with the expecta- 
tion of a permanent and satisfactory p.osition, but 
the sudden prospect of war abruptly changed his 
plans, and after closing the academic year in June 
he returned to the North. Flis career as a teacher 
had been especially gratifying and but for the out- 
break of the war would undoubtedly have been fol- 
lowed with substantial success and material profit. 
Upon his return North Mr. Fellows wasted no time 
in idle regrets but entered the office of Hon. John 
M. Shirley in Andover and began the study of law. 
Since the war had completely changed his course, 
it is probable that no more fortunate step could 
have been taken. Mr. Shirley was a man of great 
force of character, marked originality, and tlior- 
oughly versed in the law, the sort of man to make 
a deep impression upon the mind of a receptive 
and earnest student. In September, 1860, he en- 
tered the law department in the Albany University, 
and after completing the course of study in that 
institution graduated in June, 1861. He was ad- 
mitted to the Bar in the Court of Appeals in the 
State of New York, and returning soon after to 
New^ Hampshire entered the office of Pike & Barn- 
ard at Franklin, where he remained until January, 
1862. He then located in Manchester, entered the 
office of Eastman & Cross, and commenced the 
practice of his profession. In August, 1862, he 



was admitted to the Supreme Court of New Hamp- 
shire at (Concord, and in September formed a part- 
nership with Captain Amos B. Shattuck of Man- 
chester. Once more the war had a direct influence 
upon his plans. Captain Shattuck had volunteered 
and was about to join his regiment, and this part- 
nership was for the purpose of taking care of his 
business with the intention of making it permanent 
upon his return from the war. But Captain Shat- 
tuck fell, seriously w'ounded, at the battle of Fred- 
ericksburg, FJecember 13, 1862, and died a few 
days later. Mr. Fellows on the first day of January 
following began business alone in the office in 
Merchants' Exchange which he has since occupied 




,. U . I LLLOW.--. 

continuously, entering upon that career of persistent 
industry and fidelity to his clients which has won 
for him a recognized position at the Bar of his 
native state and has gained for him a well-earned 
reputation which extends far beyond its limits. In 
1874 he was elected Clerk of the Concord Rail- 
road and soon became the Attorney for the corpo- 
ration in the care and management of the business 
which grew out of the operating of that company. 
He held the position of Clerk until 1884, and has 
continued in the employment of the Concord, the 
Concord & Montreal, and the Boston & Maine 
Railroads until the present time. It follows that 
while he has been successful in general practice, 
trying many different cases, the character of his 



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professional work has been largely that pertaining 
to corporations, and more especially to business 
growing out of the operation of railroads, in which 
he has had probably a larger experience than any 
other lawyer in the state. He has been extensively 
engaged in matters relating to private and business 
corporations, having made tiie law- relating to the 
powers and duties of corporations a specialty. In 
1874 Mr. Fellows was appointed Judge of the I'o- 
lice Court of the City of Manchester, which office 
he held until July, 1875, when he resigned the po- 
sition. It was to be assumed, from the rugged 
character of liis ancestry, from the discipline of his 
youth, and the sharply-contested struggles of his 
maturer years. Judge Fellows is a man of marked 
independence of thought, positive in his convic- 
tions, and fearless in maintaining them. A Demo- 
crat from boyhood, he has always taken a deep 
interest in the politics of the state, and has taken 
an active part in every campaign, both in state and 
city politics, until within the last one or two elec- 
tions. He was long connected with the Demo- 
cratic State Committee, and influential in its 
councils, and was actively identified with the City 
Committee for many years, ne\'er ha\ing been a 
candidate himself. He has labored earnestly and 
continuously for the advancement of the principles 
to which he steadfastlv adhered, being justly recog- 
nized as a hard fighter, tenacious and resourceful 
in politics, as in the practice of his chosen profes- 
sion, and until recently being strongly and une- 
quivocally identified with the Democratic party, 
and a staunch champion of the doctrines for which 
he believed that party stood. While constantly 
occupied with weighty affairs calling for the best 
that was in him of knowledge of the law, of power 
of original thinking, and of resources in emer- 
gency. Judge Fellows has ever been ready to give 
of his time and energy to the promotion of the 
interests of the conniiunily in which he lives. In 
matters of religious faith he is a Unitarian, and 
has been intimately identified with the work and 
interests of that denomination in the state for more 
than thirty years. He has been particularly active 
and interested in promoting the Unitarian Grove 
Meetings at the Weirs, on the shores of the beauti- 
ful Lake W'innipiseogee, and has taken a lively 
and inlluential interest in the affairs of the differ- 
ent conventions of the denomination, both in the 
state and nation. He was one of the charter 
members of the Unitarian Educational Society, and 
is one of the Trustees of Proctor Academy, owned 



by the Educational Society, and has been con- 
stantly and earnestly identified with the institution 
from its origin, it being the successor of the origi- 
nal Andover Academy, where he spent his school- 
days, and for which he cherishes a strong affection. 
Judge Fellows is also one of the original Grantees 
and Trustees of the Gale Home, for the support of 
indigent and destitute women, and has served as 
Clerk of the corporation since its organization. In 
secret society associations he is a member of the 
Independent Order of Odd h'ellows, but has never 
taken any consideraltle part in the management of 
the affairs of that society. As early as 185S, how- 
ever, he became a member of the Masonic Frater- 
nity, with which he has ever since been intimately 
identified. He is possessed of all the grades, 
including the Orders of Knighthood, and the Thir- 
ty-third and last grade of the Ancient and 
Accepted Scottish Rite. He has held very many 
positions in the subordinate and grand bodies of 
the fraternity, among others. Grand Commander of 
Knights 'J'emplar in the State of New Hampshire, 
and has been an Officer in the Grand Encampment 
of the United States, Grand Lecturer of the Grand 
Lodge of Masons in New Hampshire for several 
years, and, for the last fifteen or twenty years, a 
member of the Law Committees connected with the 
fraternity of the state and nation. He has also been 
a member of the Committee of Jurisprudence of the 
(Irand Encampment of the luiiled States for many 
years, and has given particular attention and study 
to Masonic law, a subject upon which he has per- 
pared a large number of thoughtful and carefully- 
digested opinions and reports, exerting a very con- 
siderable influence in developing and shaping the 
jurisprudence of the order. Judge Fellows mar- 
ried, in 1865, Susan Frances Moore, daughter of 
Henry E. and Susan (Farnum) Moore. She was 
removed by death in 1874, and in 1878 he married 
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davis. Mrs. Fellows has two 
daughters : May W., and Edith H. Davis, to whom 
the Judge has been a father in very truth, and hus- 
band, wife, and daughters have established a home 
amid most congenial surroundings, where kindly 
hospitality is unpretentious, and where the love of 
art and literature is cherished without ostentation. 



(tIISSON, Ciiari.f.s Rkcki., Physician, Wood.s- 
ville, was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, May 
II, 1852, son of Reuel and Emily (liarnard) Gib- 
son. He attended the common sciiools of his 
native town and .\ppleton Academy, New Ipswich, 



204 



MKN Ol' I'KOCRKSS. 



New Hampshire, graduating in 1872. He was 
graduated from the Medical School of Maine in 
1875. Hs '^'^^ subsequently House Physician and 
Surgeon in tlie Maine (General Hospital at Port- 
land, in the years 1.S76 and 1S77. In 1877 he began 
the practice of his profession in Woodsville, and 
has remained there ever since. Since 1884 he has 
held the position of Assistant Surgeon for the Con- 
cord & Montreal Railroad, and he is also Physi- 
cian to the Grafton County Almshouse. He is 
Local Medical El.xaminer for all the leading Life 
Insurance Companies doing business in the vi- 
cinity. Doctor Gibson served on the School 
Board in 1884 and 1885. He is President of the 




Woodsville Loan and I'.anking Company, and has 
been a Trustee of the Woodsville Savings Bank 
since its organization. He represented the town 
of Haverhill in the Legislature in 1897. He is a 
member of the New Hampshire and Vermont State 
Medical Societies, and has been Secretary for the 
White Mountain Medical Society for twenty years. 
He is Past Grand of the Moosilauke Lodge, Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and is Vice-Presi- 
dent of the Joiin L. Woods Club of Woodsville. 
Doctor CJibson was married January 30, i88o, to 
Jennie S. Park of Plymouth, New Hampshire. 

GORDON, Naihaniel, was born in the old 
homestead at (Gordon's Hill, Kxeter, New Hamp- 



shire, November 26, 1820, son of John S., and 
Frances Gordon. He is a lineal descendant, in 
the sixth generation, of Alexander, a scion of the 
loyal Gordon family in the Highlands of Scotland. 
This young Alexander was a soldier in the Royal- 
ist army of Charles II, but was captured by Crom- 
well, confined for a time in the Tuthill Fields, 
London, and sent to America in 1651. He was 
held as prisoner of war at Watertown, Massachu- 
setts, until 1654, when he was released. He after- 
wards came to Exeter, New Hampshire, where in 
1 663 he married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Lys- 
son. The next year, the town voted him a grant 
of twenty acres of land, and he became a perma- 
nent resident, dying in 1697. From him and his 
descendants, Gordon's Hill received its name. He 
had eight children, of whom Thomas was born in 
1678. Thomas married Elizabeth Harrinuin of 
Haverhill, was father of eleven children, and died 
in 1762. From Thomas's son Timothy was de- 
scended John S. Gordon, and from Thomas's son 
Nathaniel was descended Frances Gordon. The 
line of John S. Gordon is Timothy (i), Timothy 
(2), (Revolutionary soldier of bravery under Gen- 
eral Stark in the battles of Bunker Hill, Benning- 
ton, and Saratoga), and John S. Gordon. The line 
of F'rances is Thomas, Nathaniel (i), Nathaniel 
(2), and Frances Gordon. John S. Gordon, like 
his immediate ancestors, was a quiet, unassuming 
farmer on Gordon's Hill. He never sought or 
cared for office, but was a man of infiuence and 
weight in his neighborhood, serving in his unobtru- 
sive way his day and generation well. His mar- 
riage to Frances Gordon occurred March 11, 1814, 
and his death in 1845. Mrs. Gordon was a supe- 
rior woman in mental endowments, love of nature, 
and social and domestic virtues in her devotion to 
God, and in Christian attainment. She was mar- 
ried at the age of twenty. There were born to her 
four children, three daughters and a son, of whom 
the daughters in their maturity preceded her to the 
better land. She peacefully departed this life at 
the house of her son, Hon. Nathaniel Gordon, in 
Exeter, in February, 1889, at the age of ninety-five 
years, four months, and sixteen days. Her son, 
Nathaniel, the subject of this sketch, entered 
Phillips Exeter Academy in the autumn of 1833, 
was there fitted for college, and in 1S3S entered 
the Ssphomore class of Dartmouth College, and 
was graduated therefrom in 1.S41. Each winter of 
his college course he taught school three months. 
After graduation, he taught from September, 1841, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



-05 



to May, 1842, at St. Thomas Hall, Flusliiiif;, 
Long Island. Going South, he passed the summer 
of 1842 as teacher in a Female Seminary in Balti- 
more, and in Washington. In September, 1842, 
he became tutor in a private family in Prince 
George's county, Maryland; and held this position 
for two years. During this time, he studied law, 
and was admitted to the Bar, at the April term of 
Prince George's county in 1844. For about two 
years he practiced in various courts of Prince 
George's, Calvert, and Charles counties. He then 
removed to Baltimore, where he practiced for one 
year. In September, 1847, he returned to E.xeter, 
where he has made his home ever since. Mr. 
Gordon opened a law office in Exeter, and con- 
tinued the practice of his profession until the 
breaking out of the Civil War in i86i. He has 
often been called upon to fill important positions 
of office and trust, and has ever been alive to the 
best interest of his constituents, discharging his 
duties with conscientious ability. In 1849, he was 
chosen Secretary and Treasurer of the Rocking- 
ham Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 
and was re-elected annually for eight years. He 
represented Exeter in the Legislatures of 1849 and 
1850, and his district in the State Senate in 1869 
and 1870. In 1S70, he was chosen President of 
the Senate; in 1870, his name was brought for- 
ward by his friends as a candidate for Congress 
before the Republican Congressional ( 'onvention 
held at Dover in December, 1870. On the first 
ballot he received seventy-six votes out of two 
hundred and forty-four, the largest number cast for 
any candidate ; eighty-five votes on the next ballot, 
but after the third ballot he withdrew in favor of 
Mr. Small, who was nominated and elected. True 
to his principles, Mr. Gordon has been the uncom- 
promising foe of slavery, and in the dark and try- 
ing days of 1861 was one of the boldest persons in 
Exeter in support of the Lfnion, placing every dol- 
lar he owned and all that he could borrow in gov- 
ernment securities, thus showing his faith by his 
works. The result of this confidence was a very 
satisfactory accumulation of property. In 1865, 
he made a trip to California and Nevada in the 
interest of the Silver Mining Company of 15oston, 
and remained a year, .^t the age of eighteen, 
while a Sophomore in Dartmouth College, Mr. 
Gordon united with the Congregational Church at 
Hanover; from that time he has continued an ear- 
nest and devoted Christian, making other matters 
and secular pursuits subordinate to the cause of 



Christ. He has taken a deep interest in Sabbath- 
school work, and for ten 3'ears was a Superin- 
tendent of the Sabbath-school of the Second Con- 
gregational Church of Exeter, of which he was a 
member. He was also a Deacon of this church for 
thirty years. The numerous benefactions of Mr. 
Gordon show he lias caught the spirit of the Mas- 
ter. His time and his money have been freely 
given in aid of many good enterprises. From his 
interest in education, he was chosen, December 15, 
1 866, one of the seven members comprising the 
first Board of Trustees of the Robinson Female 
Seminary then just organized. He was also Chair- 
man of the Superintending School Committee of 




NATHANIF.I. C.CJRDON. 

Exeter several years. His kintlness to struggling 
and deserving students will long Ijc remembered, 
and in 1872 he gave one thousand dollars to Phil- 
lips Exeter Academy for a scholarship, for such 
students; in 1874, he gave one thousand more for 
the same purpose, and in 188 1, gave to Dartmouth 
College one thousand dollars for a like purpose; 
in 1 886, he gave an additional one thousand for a 
scholarship. He is also one of the foiuiders of the 
New Hampshire Orphans' Home, ]'"ranklin. New 
Hampshire. In 1885, he gave to the " llome" one 
thousand dollars to be added to their permanent 
fund, the interest alone to be expended in the sup- 
port of the institui ion. In 18X7, he, b)' an addi- 



2o6 



MKX OF PROGRESS. 



tional one thousand dollars, increased the endow- 
ment. The benefactions of Mr. Gordon are not 
limited to his native state. In iSSo, he aided in 
the fund raised for General Grant by his friends. 
He has been a patron of the General Theological 
Library of Boston, and is at this time one of its 
Vice-Presidents. He has placed libraries in whal- 
ing ships for the promotion of good morals among 
sailors. He has established several Sabbath- 
schools west of the Mississippi, and encouraged 
them by sending to them libraries. Mr. Gordon 
has also contributed lilierally to the American 
Board of Christian Foreign Missions for the sup- 
port of our missionaries in heathen lands. In 
i<S92, he gave to the Congregational Educational 
Society five thousand dollars as a permanent fund 
for the endowment of Ogden Academy in the Ter- 
ritory of Utah. In 1S93, he gave five thousand 
more to the same society, making the endowment 
for Ogden Academy ten thousand dollars. In 
1892, Mr. Gordon gave the American Board of 
Christian Foreign Missions five thousand dollars 
for the endowment of a permanent fund for Tun- 
cho Theological Seminary near Pekin. China. 
This institution is designed for the preparation of 
young Christian Chinamen to preach the gospel 
of Christ. In 1S93, he gave an additional five 
thousand dollars to this seminary, making the 
entire endowment the same as the endowment of 
Ogden Academy, ten thousand dollars. And he 
gives also to each of these last named educational 
institutions fifty dollars annually for the purpose of 
building up the libraries in each for the benefit of 
the students. Mr. Gordon also has a love for the 
grand and beautiful in nature, no less than for 
the enjoyment and happiness of school children. 
There are a pair of magnificent white oaks near 
the school house at the foot of Gordon's Hill 
where he first went to school, under which the 
children used to play. These oaks are centuries 
old, and were probably contemporaneous with the 
aborigines of New Hampshire. Their grandeur 
caught the eye of the ship-builder, in 1869, in 
search of timber to plough the seas. He coveted 
them for the ribs of his ships, and made a tempt- 
ing offer to the owner. It came to the ears of Mr. 
Gordon. He at once bought an acre of the land 
whereupon the majestic oaks were standing, and 
gave the land and oaks to the town of Exeter for 
a school-house lot. 'Ihe school children will con- 
tinue to enjoy them for many generations, and the 
noble trees w-ill stand for centuries to come, 



admired by all observers. He also owns a grove 
of oaks of about four acres in the village of Exeter, 
adjoining the Academy campus, which he gives to 
the town of Exeter on condition that the trees are 
not to be cut down. This brief sketch of Mr. 
Gordon would be incomplete without a few words 
in reference to his mother. Mr. Gordon says her 
voice to him in childhood seemed to be the voice 
of God, and that he could not outgrow the feeling 
in manhood : that his mother had more to do with 
the formation of his character than all other things 
of an earthly nature. It seems to him that she 
attained that state of mind and heart which our 
.Saviour enjoined upon his followers in his sermon 
on the Mount, "Be \e therefore perfect even as 
your Father which is in Heaven is perfect." Mr. 
Gordon married first, Alcina Evelyn, daughter of 
Moses Sanborn of Kingston, New Hampshire, 
December 26, 1853. Their children were : Moses 
Sanborn, John Thomas (died in infancy), Nathaniel, 
Frances Evelyn, and Mary .Mcina Elizabeth. Mrs. 
Gordon died on the 14th of .April, 1864. June 4, 
186S, he again married Georgiana, daughter of 
John Lowe, Jr., of Exeter. Mr. Gordon's eldest 
son is married and lives in Texas. His youngest 
son is unmarried and lives in New York city. His 
oldest daughter is married to Professor George 
Lyman Kittredge of Harvard College. His younger 
daughter is the wife of Mr. William H Foster, 
an instructor at St. Paul's School, Concord, New 
Hampshire. Systematic and conservative in busi- 
ness, Mr. Gordon has been financially prospered, 
but believing that "it is not all of life, to live," his 
gains are not the object of his worship. In many 
and widely varying directions the kindness of his 
benefactions w-ill be a blessing and source of happi- 
ness to many generations yet to come. Mr. Gor- 
don lives in simplicity and retirement on Pine 
Street in Exeter, on a small farm of about twenty 
acres of tillage land, meadow, and oak forest, and 
with Little river meandering through the meadow. 



PERKINS. IIosKA B.\Li.otT. Retired Merchant, 
New York, was born in Dover. New Hampshire, 
Augu.st 4, 18 1 9. son of Robert and Relief (Earle) 
Perkins. He is descended from one of the oldest 
families of New Hampshire. He was educated in 
the public schools, leaving them, however, when he 
was fourteen years of age. and dividing the remain- 
ing years of his bovhnod between farm and clerk 
life. At seventeen, with no capital save his native 
energy, and without any acquaintance in the great 



MF.X OF PROGRESS. 



lOJ 



city, except a poor colored man. he went to New 
York to seek hLs fortune. Mr. Perkins be,^an his 
business career in New York as a clerk in the lar^e 
carpet establisiiment of Shaw t\; Carter. At the end 
of his second year with this tirm. he declinetl a lib- 
eral salary offered him to remain w ith the company, 
and embarked in business on his own account, tak- 
ing as a partner his younger brother, James P. Per- 
kins. For twenty-five years the career of this tirm 
of carpet merchants was steadily successful in spite 
of financial crises through which the country passed 
during that time. Notwithstanding the demands of 
business, Mr. Perkins was able to devote nuicli time 
to other pursuits, and became well knciwn as a pub- 



i 




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H. B. PERKINS. 

lie speaker. In iSyi.he received tiie honorary 
degree of Master of Arts from pKJwdoin, and in 
1875 ^^"'^'^ simihirly honored by Dartmoutii College. 
In the fall of tiie latter year he deii\erecl to the 
Dartmouth students, a ])opukir lecture on Robert 
Hums, the Scottish poet, which was repeated two 
years later at the request of the faculty. Mr. Per- 
kins has delivered nianv addresses before agriiul- 
tural societies, colleges, political and other gather- 
ings, also before lyceums. He has always been in 
great demand as an after dinner s|)eaker. During 
the Civil War he represented his native stale in the 
New Kngland Relief Association, and elocpienlly 
pleadeil the cause of the L'nion. When the Seccmcl 



New Hampshire Regiment arri\ed in New \'ork, 
under command of Colonel Marston, Mr. Perkins 
was selected by the sons of New Hampshire resident 
in that city, to make the address of welcome, and 
this he did on the Hatter)-, in the presence of ten 
thousand people. 'Phe speech was republished 
widel)' b_\- the New Fngland press. Among other 
notable addresses tielivered. are included a speech 
made at the twenty-fifth State Fair of the New 
Hampshire Agricultural Society, and a response to 
the toast. " Our Country," at the famous Rums din- 
ner where David |)udle_\' Fiekl [Mesided, and Horace 
Greeley, William Cullen l!r\ant, the Rev. Dr. F. H. 
Chapin, and other distinguished men spoke. In 
politics, Mr. Perkins has been a life-k>ng Democrat, 
efficient and active on the stump during many cam- 
paigns. He has never sought political office, but 
was content to serve the educational interests of 
New York as Commissioner and Inspector cjf Pub- 
lic Schools for more than thirty years. During the 
last year of Fernando Wood's mayoralty in New 
\'ork, the nonunation for the Assembly in the 
'Pwelfth \^■ard was tendered Mr. Perkins, fuit was 
declined. Later, under the leadershiij i.'t |(ihn 
Kelly, he was nominated for State Senator, but this 
nomination also was declinetl, very much to the re- 
gret of his party. Mr. Perkins is a member of the 
Tammany Society, of the Democratic Club, the 
Fordham Club, and the Washington Heights Century 
Club. He was President of the last n.\med organ- 
ization for ten years. He was marrietl. November 
9, 1843. to Harriet Louise Hanmer, who died in 
1S88. Mr. Perkins purchased a beautiful estate at 
Foit \\'ashington, forty years ago, where he now re- 
sides in one of the most valuable subiuban villas of 
the Greater New York. Si.x children are living, one 
son and five daughters, wln) are married ami reside 
in New York or in the vicinity of the great Metrop- 
olis. 



PITMAN, Cii.VRi.Ks 1''kank, Manufacturer. 
Laconia, was born in that place, October O, 1847, 
son of Joseph Prescolt and Charlotte Abbie (Par- 
ker) Pitman. He is descended from early Puritan 
settlers of Esse.\ Coimty, Massachusetts, and .nnong 
his ancestors were men who served with distinction 
in the Colonial Wars and in the Rexolution. His 
father was a leatling fiusiness man nl L.udni.i, 
Agent of the Lake Com|.)any, a Man.iging Director 
of the Boston, Concord cV Montreal K.iilroad. and 
at the time of his death President of the Peiuige- 
wasset X'allev Railroad. No one conlributetl moie 



2o8 



MKN nv 1'R()(;ress. 



to the growth and prosperity of Laconia. I'hc 
mother of the subject of this sketch was a pupil of 
Mary Lyon, the distinguished teacher who founded 
Mount Holyoke College, and was a woman of great 
personal attractions, charming manner, and strong 
character. Charles Frank Pitman was educated at 
New Hampton Academy, and Phillips Academy at 
Andover. I'pon leaving school he entered the ser- 
vice of the I'itman Manufacturing Company, estab- 
lished and owned by his father, where he mastered 
the details of the management of the business. 
ITpon the death of liis father, in 1S83, he became 
President and Manager of the company, in the con- 
duct of whose affairs he has been highly successful. 




LH.\KI.i;.S !■■. 1M1M.\N. 

Mr. Pitman is a Director of the Laconia National 
]3ank. Trustee of Belknap Savings Bank, and mem- 
ber of the Finance Committee, member of the 
managing board of the Trustees of the Laconia 
Hospital, and of the Kxecutive Committee of the 
Educational Society, and a Trustee of the Gale 
Fund for the City Library and Park. He is Presi- 
dent of the North Congregational Society, and a 
Deacon of the church. He is a member of the New 
Hampshire Society of the Colonial Wars. In poli- 
tics Mr. Pitman is a Republican. He has never 
sought public office, but he has always maintained 
an active interest in al! matters pertaining to the 
welfare of the conununity. He is a liberal contri- 



butor to worthy objects. He has a .strong hold 
upon the regard of all those with whom he comes in 
contact, and is highly esteemed for his sound judg- 
ment and executive ability. He has strongly devel- 
oped literary and arlLstic tastes, and is the pos.sessor 
of a large and valuable library and many works of 
art. Mr. Pitman married, October 15. 1890, Grace 
Anna Vaughan, daughter of O. A. J. Vaughan, a 
well known member of the Bar. Mrs. Pitman was 
educated at Mount Holyoke, is possessed of great 
literary attainments, and is active in all social mat- 
ters. They have had two children: Ruth Marion, 
who died in infancy, and Charles Joseph, born Jan- 
uar)' 22, 1895. 



RAMSDFLL, Georoe Allen, Governor of New 
Hampshire. The ancestors of Governor Ramsdell 
were of English origin. Abijah Ramsdell, who 
was born about 1C95, came to this country in early 
life and settled in Lynn, Massachusetts. He was 
the immigrant ancestor of the family. The name 
ajjpears frequentl}- in the public records of that 
town. Descendants from the original progenitor 
settled in that vicinity and became a prominent and 
highly respected class of citizens. Abednego 
Ramsdell was among the slain at Lexington. On 
the morning of that day he learned of the expedi- 
tion of the British to Concord and immediately 
started across the country in that direction. It is 
probable that he arrived at Lexington in .season to 
meet the British troops in their retreat. He en- 
gaged at once in the fight and was among the first 
to fall. There were six others, brothers or near 
kinspeople of this family, in the War of the Revo- 
lution from the town of Lynn. Captain William 
Ramsdell, the grandfather of Governor Ramsdell, 
settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in early life and 
engaged in East Indian trade. The prominent po- 
sition of the merchants and " seafaring " men from 
Salem in the ])eriod succeeding the Revolution is 
historic. Their ships " went down to the sea," and 
visited the Indias and returned laden with the val- 
uable and varied products of that " wonderland of 
spices and silks, of ivory and gold." For two gen- 
erations certainly and perhaps three the ancestors 
of Governor Ramsdell were extensively engaged in 
the East Indian and Mediterranean traffic, sailing 
their own vessels and those of other merchants. It 
was a life of peril and hardship and those who fol- 
lowed it were possessed of fortitude, strength and 
endurance such as the modern mariner knows not 
of. Captain William Ramsdell moved from Salem 



MKN OF PROGRESS. 



2 Of) 



to IMilford, New Hnmpshire. in 1S15. He then 
purchased the well-known farm situated u|5on tlie 
main thoroughfare between that town and W'iUon, 
which has been the family homestead ever since 
and is now owned by the (;o\ernor and iiis brother. 
'I'he father of Governor Ramsdell, the second Cap- 
tain VA'illiam Ramsdell, was bom in Salem and 
came to Milford when about twehe years old. He 
became a leading and prominent citizen and was 
largely influential in controlling the affairs of the 
town and to a considerable extent throughout the 
county and state. He was conservative and hrmly 
fixed in his views in different departments of life, 
social, religious, business and political, and his 
strong personality was a potent influence in the 
community where he li\ed. In early life he fol- 
lowed the same calling as his ancestors and for 
several years was engaged in foreign trade, but in 
1830 he settled down in the more quiet and less 
eventful life of farming upon the old homestead. 
Governor Ramsdell's mother w-as Maria Antoinette, 
eldest daughter of Reverend Humphrey Moore, one 
of the celebrated ministers of his time. Pastor of 
the First Congregational church in Milford for 
about forty years and well and widely known for 
his ability and a rigid adherence to his orthodox 
views. Her maternal ancestry is in lineal descent 
from Lieutenant Francis Peabody, the progenitor 
of the distinguished Peabody family in this coun- 
try, containing so many names of honor and re- 
nown. Lieutenant Peabody was born in Hertford- 
shire, England, and came to this country in 1635. 
He first lived in Ipswich, Massachusetts, then 
Hampton, New' Hampshire, and finally settled in 
Topsfield, Massachusetts, where he died in 1697. 
The maternal grandmother of Governor Ramsdell 
was Hannah Peabody, the lineal descendant of 
William, the third son of Lieutenant Francis Pea- 
body. No more honored name has been written in 
the history of our country, in the annals of war, in 
the halls of legislation, in the courts of justice, than 
the name of this distinguished family, and well may 
those take a pardonable pride who can claim kin- 
ship with so noble and worthy a man as George 
Peabody, the philanthropist, whose fame for 
princely charities is world-wide. In these brief 
traces of ancestry we find those enduring traits of 
character which from their positive and indestruc- 
tible nature transmit themselves through successive 
generations. George Allen Ramsdell was born in 
Milford, New Hampshire, March 11, 1S34, and 
lived the unc\entful childhocid and bn\ho(nl da\s 



upon the old farm. He attended the public and 
High Schools in that town and acciuired a good 
English education before he was eighteen vears of 
age. He was then intending to adopt the profes- 
sion of Civil Engineering but the depression in the 
business of railroad building which occurred in 
i852-'53 caused him to ch.uige his purpose and 
adopt a different plan, and he ilcciiled to take a clas- 
sical course of study with a view of entering some 
college. He completed his preparatory course in 
McCollom Institute at Mont Vernon, New Hamp- 
shire, and entered Amherst College in 18^3, where 
he remained one year, but having in the meantime 
concluded to begin the stud)- of law immediately 
instead of remaining to complete the collegiate 
term he entered the office of Hon. liainbridge Wad- 
leigh in Milford, where he remained two years and 
then went to Manchester to continue the study in 
the office of Hon. Daniel Clark and Hon. Isaac W. 
Smith. In the fall of 1857 he was admitted to the 
Ijar and soon after commenced business in Peter- 
borough, New Hampshire. He was engaged in ac- 
tive practice there about six years, when the resig- 
nation of Hon. E. S. Cutter, Clerk of the Supreme 
Court, caused a vacancy in that office. Mr. Rams- 
dell had already established the reputation through- 
out the county as a trustworthy and efficient law- 
yer and had developed the qualifications which that 
important position required. The universal opin- 
ion of the Par seemed to fix u|)on him with one 
accord and the appointment was made. He then 
moved to Amherst, where the county records were 
located, but in 1866 they were transferred to 
Nashua, where he removed and has since resided. 
He held the office for twent\-three years, and be- 
came widely known as one of the most thoroughly 
informed and accomplished clerks in the country. 
While the position of the Clerk of oiu- Supreme 
Court in many ways is one of a clerical character 
it has gradually grown to include a much broader 
if not more important class of duties. Its intimate 
connection with the varied practice of the law by 
the whole body of the profession makes a thorough 
knowledge of the system in all its details of inesti- 
mable value and it has come to be regarded by the 
Court as well as the memljeis of the liar as of great 
importance. His term of olfice was nuiinly during 
that period when such men as Hon. (George W. 
Morrison, Judge C. W. St.iuley, Chief Justice Lewis 
W. Clark, Hon. George \'. Sawyer, Judge A. \\'. 
Sawyer, General A. h'. Stevens, Attorney Generals 
Win. C. ('lark .ind Mason W. Ta|i|i,ni, I'nitcd 



MEN Ol- rRU(JRESS. 



States Senators Daniel Clark and Bainbridge Wad- 
leigh, Hon. S. N. Hell and other eminent lawyers 
were in full practice : and the court had such emi- 
nent Chief Justices as Samuel 1). 15ell, Ira Perley, 
Henry A. Hellows. J. Everett Sargent, Edmund L. 
Cushing and Charles IJoe, with Associate Justices 
whose honored names upon the pages of our Judi- 
cial History have given our court rank among the 
ablest and most distingushed tribunals in the coun- 
try. Constantly surrounded by such men and dis- 
charging the varied duties which devolved upon him 
under such circumstances afforded the means of an 
education and a discipline rarely enjoyed. He was 
often appointed to act as Auditor. Keferee or Master 




i.Lu. A. K.\MSDELL. 

in Chancery, frequently in other counties, and prob- 
ably tried more causes than any other lawyer 
excepting Judges of the court, in the history of the 
state. His eminent fairness and correct application 
of the rules of law was universally conceded and 
the integrity of his decisions was never cjuestioned. 
His high reputation and acknowledged qualifications 
for those important duties followed him after his 
retirement from the office of Clerk and in 1893 he 
was tendered the office of Associate justice of the 
Supreme Court, but owing to important interests in 
other directions which he had become connected 
with, he was obliged to decline the office, unfortu- 
nately we believe, for he would easily have taken 



high rank as a jurist and been able to have ren- 
dered signal service in the place where above all 
others the welfare of the people and the permanency 
of our institutions can best be preserved. During 
the time he has resided in Nashua Governor Rams- 
dell has held many places of both public and priv- 
ate trust and importance. For ten years he was a 
member of the Board of Education and for twice 
that time has been a Trustee of the Public Eibrary. 
In i869-"7o-'7i he was a member of the Legisla- 
ture; in 1S76 a member of the Constitutional 
Convention and in i89i-'92 a member of the 
Executive Council. For five years he was President 
of the ]5oard of Trustees of the State Industrial 
School at Manchester and has been for many years 
a Trustee of the New Hampshire Orphans' Home 
at Franklin. While residing in Peterborough he 
became a member of the Masonic Fraternity and 
after moving to Nashua received the grades of the 
Scottish Rite to the Thirty-second degree inclusive. 
He is a member of the First Congregational Church 
in Nashua and has always been identified with the 
Orthodox denomination although he is regarded as 
very liberal in his views. He rendered that society 
valuable service in building the stone church of the 
parisii, which is one of the best in the state, (gover- 
nor Ramsclell is a pronounced advocate of the 
cause of temperance and has been during his whole 
life a total abstinent. He has always upheld the 
prohibitory system in force in the state and whether 
in private or public life has brought to bear upon 
the condition of alTairs concerning that most trou- 
blesome and important question an intelligent and 
tlecided influence. He -is a staunch Republican 
and although he has done less of the party work 
than many others with whom he has been associated 
his conservative and well-defined views, emphasized 
always by great sincerity and strong convictions, 
have made him a potent factor in the control and 
general direction of the policy of the Republican 
people in the state ; and while he has not sought to 
interfere with the details of party management to 
any great extent, his influence has been brougiit to 
bear in favor of its more important propositions, 
and his determined stand has frequently made its 
impression upon party measures. He has never 
engaged to any considerable extent in political can- 
vassing but has occasionally made public addresses. 
His style as a speaker is logical and argumentative 
and always characterized by fairness and an une.x- 
aggerated presentation of facts, and, emphasized by 
his high character and personal merit, his efforts 



MKN OF PR()(;RESS. 



have always been received with faxnr and respect. 
Among the positions of ]:ri\ate triist wiiich he liolds 
may be enumerated President of the First National 
Bank and Treasurer of the City Guaranty Savings 
Bank in Nashua, Director in the Nashua Manufac- 
turing Company and the Jackson Company, the 
leading industries of his city, lie is also a Director 
in the Wilton and Peterborough railroads. Cover- 
nor Ramsdell married November 29, i860, Eliza D. 
Wilson, daughter of David W'ilson of Deciing, New 
Hampshire, a descendant of one of the Fondon- 
dcrr}- emigrants. Her mother was Margaret Dins- 
more, also a descendant of one of the Fondonderry 
settlers. They have four children, three of whom 
reside in Nashua, and one is engaged in business 
in Texas. Although he has been continuously in 
business for over fort}- years it is a remarkable fact 
that he has never been incapacitated for a single 
day by sickness from the discharge of any duty, or 
prevented from attending to whatever the occasion 
required. Governor Ramsdell is not possessed of 
great wealth but has a fair competency. He has 
ne\er engaged in speculations or taken the chances 
li\' which men sometimes become rich and some- 
times poor. What he has accpiired has been by 
honest ways and reputable business methods. 
According" tn usual partv methods his name was 
suggested in connection with nomination for (Gover- 
nor in the convention of 1S92, and in 189 ; he was 
one of the most prominent candidates. \n i.Si^d he 
was made the party nominee with substantially no 
opposition and was elected in November hx a larger 
majority than ever before received by any candi- 
date, and by a larger vote than ever received in the 
state by any candidate e.xcept President McKinle)'. 
He was inaugurated January 6, 1S97. Cio\eni(ir 
Ramsdell was peculiarly well fitted to enter upon 
the discharge of the duties of Chief Magistrate. 
His long and active service in the Fegislature, his 
term as member of the Council and his thdi'ough 
study of the affairs of the state, qualilietl him in an 
unusual degree for the position and he was enabled 
to take up the work as with a hand nf hmg experi- 
ence and familiarity. The first year of his admini- 
stration was characterized by no unusual occurrence 
but the present period is marked with events of an 
important character. 'I'he war with .S|)ain suddenly 
coming ujkju the country has brought the various 
states face to face with stern realities and called 
upon the people to march to the front. Puit al- 
though without reason to anticipate the situation 
New Hampshire has in the (|uickest possible time 



been brought to a "war footing;'" and more than 
tilled her quota and been amon^ the lirst to get her 
troops to the front. In the eail\- days of the great 
rebellion New Hampshire had a "War Governor " 
who gained high reputation for his energy and 
patriotism, and we of this day are ecjually fortunate 
in having a Chief AFigistrate entitled to a stand 
among the "War Governors" who liy their executive 
ability, prompt action and unllinching discharge of 
duty, enabled the (Government to prosecute the War 
with success and etticiency and which make certain 
ultimate success. 



.SH)E.S, WiLLi.AM ()., Postmaster of Ports- 
mouth, was born in Fxeter, New Hampshire, 
January 17, 1831, son of Nathaniel ]!. and Eliza- 
lieth (York) Sides. He is of Fnglish descent on 
the paternal side, his grandfather having come to 
this country from Great Britain. (In the maternal 
side the family has been American for many gen- 
erations. FFs parents remi:)ved from Fxeter to 
Kittery in his infanc\', whence a few years later 
they came to Portsmouth, where he acc|uired his 
early education in the conuuon schools. He com- 
menced active life as a mule spinner in a cotton 
mill, at which occupation he was employed for 
several years, and then entered into business for 
himself as a li\ery stable keeper in Portsmouth. 
'Phis business he followed successfully for four or 
live years, until he abandoned it to enter the army. 
( )n the breaking out of the Ci\il War. Mr. Sides 
was the hrst man to enlist in the state of New 
ff ampshire. and was appointed by the Go\'ernor as 
Recruiting Officer for the city of Portsmouth. In 
this capacity he enlisted one hundred and five men 
in five days. Although he had enlisted as a 
private, he was promptly connnissioned ( 'aptain of 
the company thus raised, which became Company 
K, Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. 
He went to the front in mmmand of his company, 
and participated in the first battle of Bull Run. On 
tlie retreat following that disastrous engagement, 
he met with (piite a severe injury, on account of 
which he soon after resigned his commission. .Sub- 
sequently he was appointed by the President t(.) 
a Captaincy in the Veteran Keserxe Coips, and 
assigned to the command of a Company that was 
sent to Albany, New Ndik, to enforce the draft. 
From there he was sent to I'.lmira, New \drk, and 
thence to Alexandria, \'irginia, where he was 
detailed in connnand of the patrol guard. He was 
in service there for tw(j months, when his condition 



MF.X OF PR()(;RESS. 



of health requiring n change, he was relieved from 
his company at Alexandria and sent to Fortress 
Monroe, and took charge of five companies where 
he attended to the unloading from transports and 
removing to the hospitnk some five thousand sick 





W. O. SIDES. 

and wounded soldiers, shipping them North when 
well enough to be removed to their homes. 
Resigned and reappointed as First Lieutenant and 
transferred to Fort Snelling, Minnesota, where he 
remained until December, 1865, mustered out, June 
30, 1866. Altogether he was in the service thirty- 
four months. After a brief period of inactivity 
and recuperation following his return home, Mr. 
Sides went to Washington and served for a time 
as Messenger in the House of Representatives. 
While engaged in this capacity he received an 
appointment as Inspector in the Boston Custom 
House, where he served for three years, and was 
then transferred to a similar position in the Ports- 
mouth (New Hampshire) Custom House, in which 
he continued for twelve years. On the nomination 
of James G. Hlaine for the Presidency, Mr. Sides, 
always a strong Republican in politics, in association 
with another gentleman, started a small daily paper, 
the Penny-Post, in the interest of Mr. Blaine's can- 
didacy. 'I'he subsecjuent defeat of the Republican 
ticket and tiie accession of the Cleveland regime 
resulted in the removal of Mr. Sides from his gov- 



ernment office, and he at once turned all his atten- 
tion and energies to his newspaper, which he 
greatly enlarged and ran successfully throughout 
the whole term of the Cleveland administration, 
and the campaign that resulted in the election of 
Harrison. \\'hen President Harrison came into 
office. Mr. Sides was appointed Postmaster of 
Portsmouth, which position he filled until a change 
of administration wiien he was again removed from 
office by President Cleveland on the ground of 
" offensive partisanship." Lender the McKinley 
administration he was promptly reappointed to the 
Postmastership. taking office for the second time in 
September, 1897. and in this capacity he continues 
to serve with signal ability and satisfaction to the 
general public. Mr. Sides cast his first Presiden- 
tial vote for John P. Hale, the Free-Soil candidate, 
and he has been a consistent and ardent Repub- 
lican from the organization of the party. He has 
been active and prominent in state and local 
politics, and has served his city as Representative 
to the General Court. He has also served as 
Chairman of the Police C'ommission of the City of 
Portsmouth, resigning this office to accept his post- 
mastership reappointment. Mr. Sides is a member 
of the Independent Order of Odd F'ellows and the 
Knights of P3thias, in which latter organization he 
has served as Vice-Grand Chancellor, Grand Chan- 
cellor and Past Grand Chancellor. He was mar- 
ried in 1858 to Margaret A. Badger; they have 
four children: Antoinette C, Annie B., (now Mrs. 
Garrett.) Grace A., and Walter Herman Sides. 



TO\^'LE, Elias Irvinc, Merchant, F'reedom, was 
born in that town, April 16, 1845, ^°n °^ Elias and 
Lois (Swett) Towle. His grand-parents, Amos 
Towle and Stephen Swett. came from Hampton, 
New Hampshire, and were among the first settlers 
of the town of Freedom. He was educated in the 
common schools of his native town and in the sem- 
inaries at Parsonsfield and Center Effingham, and 
was graduated April i, 1866, from Bryant and 
Stratton's Commercial College. Portland, Maine. 
At an early age he entered his father's store as 
clerk, also taking charge of his farm and general 
business. May i, 1866, he commenced business 
for himself, purchasing his father's store and stock 
of goods. His father had been engaged in business 
in the same place for thirty-live years, April i, 1878, 
George I. Philbrick became his partner, forming the 
company of E, I. Towle & Company, which still con- 
tinues, and at the same time adding the manufacture 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



213 



of clotliiiig'. Since 1S80 hu has dealt quite exten- 
sively in fancy steers and oxen, and has done a large 
farming; business. His father had been in the 
lumber business for several years and on accoimt 
of ill-health gave up the business to him in 1874. 
The company is known as Towle cS; Keneson, and 
does a business of from tliirt)' to lift)' thousand 
dollars yearly. Mr. Towle was chosen Trustee of 
the Ossipee Vallev Ten Cent Savings bank of Free- 
dom, May 1 1, 1S70. and four \-eais later was chosen 
Assistant Treasurer, and December 29, 1S81 , he was 
elected Treasurer. He has been Town Clerk and 
was a member of the General Court in 1893. He is 
a member of Carroll Lodge of Masons, No. 56 ; 
Carroll Chapter, No. 23, Royal Arch Masons; Cal- 
\in Toplili Chapter. ( )rder of Eastern Star; is an 
Odd Fellow, member of Prospect Lodge, No. 81 ; 
Mt. Chocorua Encampment, No. ;^2 ; Sunset 
Rebekah Lodge, No. 52, and Freedom (irange and 
Carroll County Pomona Grange. He is a member 
of the First Christian Society of Freedom. In 




K. I. 'roWI.E. 



politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Towle was married 
February 22, 1872, to \'esta Marcia Merrill. They 
have one son: Harold hving Towle. Ijorn April 3, 
1887. 



17, 1 868, son of Benajah P. and Ann Lizzie (Moul- 
ton) Varney. He attended the public schools of 
Dover, and began his business career in banking 
in this city in 1887. hi May, 1897, he was appoint- 
ed Cashier of the Great Falls Xational liank at 




F. M. VARNEY. 

Somersworth. succeeding ]. H. Sticknev. who Avas 
murdered by Joseph E. Kelley, April 16, 1S97. 
Mr. Varney is prominent in INLisonry, and is a 
member of the .Straftord Lodge, Ancient Free and 
Accepted Masons; of lielknap Chapter, Royal Arch 
Masons ; of Orphan Coimcil, Royal and Select 
AListers ; of St. Paul Commandery, Knights Tem- 
plar. He is a member of Olive liranch Lodge, 
Knights of Pythias ; the Penevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks, and the Knights of Ancient Essenic 
Order, all of Dover. He was marrietl December 
12, 1893, to Rosalind IS. Johnson. They have one 
child: Harold Johnson Varney. 



\'ARNEY, F"rei:> Moui.ton, I'.ankcr, Somers- 
worth, was born in Dover, New I hinipsliiic. Inly 



P>ARTLETT, John Pai(;k, Manchester, was 
born in W'eare, February 4, 1841, son of John and 
Lurena (Bailey) Bartlett. lie attended the Acad- 
emies of Francestown, Meriden, and Mont Ver- 
non, and subsequently was a student at Dartmouth 
('oUege, being graduated in the (lass of 1S64. He 
.studied law with Mfirrison, .St.mk'y cS: Clark at Man- 
chester. Flis lirst active practice was in the West, 
where he was Connnissioner ol the I'nited States 



214 



MEN OF PKOCRESS. 



Circuit Couit in l);ii<ota, i867-'68. He removed 
to Nebraska, where he became leader in his profes- 
sion, and was chosen City Solicitor of Omaha, 
iSOcf-'ji. In 1S74 he returned to the East, and 
opened an office in Manchester, where he quickly 




JOHN p. i;arii,kit. 

came to tiie front, beiny; chosen City Solic- 
itor in 1S75, and appointed Judge of the Police 
Court. i875-'76. Mr. Ilartlett has been very active 
in politics, and has proved his ability as Chairman 
of the Democratic State Committee in 1890 and 
1892. He is a niend)er of the Anioskeag \'et- 
erans ; a Mason, having been Master of Washing- 
ton Lodge, and has held high positions in the 
lienevolent and I'rotectixe ( )rder of l''.lks. He was 
first President of the Granite State Club. He was 
one of the organizers of the Southern New Hamp- 
shire liar Association. Mr. ISartlett. during his 
residence in the West, was the first President of 
the Bar Association at Cheyenne, Wyoming, a posi- 
tion to which he was elected in 1867 ; and he was 
the first attorney to be admitted to the Bar in the 
state of Nebraska. He was a member of the state 
Senate in 1895. 



I'.AKRON. OscAK (;.. M.inager of the (Juincy 
House, ISoston. was born in (Juecliee. Windsor 
county, \ermont, Octolier 17, 1851, son of Asa T. 
and ("larissy (l)enunonj Barron. He received his 
education in the schools of Quechee, Springfield. 
White River Junction, Williston, Fairfax, and Poult- 
ney, Vermont. His lifelong occupation has been 
hotel keeping, with every department of which he 
is thoroughly acquainted, and in the pursuit of 
which he has made an almost unrivalled success. 



In the course of his career he has managed the 
Linited States Senate restaurant at Washington 
(being appointed by Vice-President Wheeler in 
1877 and retaining the management for five year.s) ; 
the Putnam House, Palatka, Florida ; the F^astman 
Hotel, Hot Springs, Arkansas; the Raymond and 
Whitcomb Grand, Barron's Suburban Hotel and 
the Harvard Hotel, Chicago ; the Twin Mountain 
House, Fabyan House, and Mount Pleasant House, 
White Mountains; the Senter House, Centre Har- 




O. G. HARRON. 

bur. New Hampshire; and the (Juincy House, Bos- 
tun. I'or thirty years he has been engaged in the 
sununer hotel business, having gone to the 'I'win 
Mountain House in 1868. He became manager of 
F'abvan's in 1878. Probably no White Mountain 
hotel landlord is more widely known, and more gen- 
eralh- popular. In addition to his private business 
he has devoted much time to public affairs. He 
served the town of Carroll as Selectman for eight- 
een years, and in 1888, 1890, 1895 and 1896 as 
Representati\e in the Legislature. Governor Saw- 
yer appointed him a Colonel on his Staff. Mr. Bar- 
ron is a member of \\'hite Mountain Lodge of 
Masons, Whitefield; North Star Chapter, Lancas- 
ter; St. Gerard Commandery. Littleton; I'xlward 
A. Raymond Consistorv and Rose Croix, Nashua ; 
Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Boston ; and 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



^15 



Boston. Ht married. May i6, 1872, Junnic Eane 
of Montpeiier, Vermont, and lia.s one daughter: 
Maude Lane Barron. 



(.'.\1N. 1. Leavitt, Physician, Newport, was 
born in CJoshen, New Hampsliire, Septemljer 26, 
1859, son of George \A'. and C'yntiiia J. (Lea\itt) 
Cain. His father, a native of Unity, New Hamp- 
shire, was a dry goods merchant for many years, 
and afterwards a farmer; lie has now retired and 
Uves in Newport. Doctor Cain was brought up on 
a farm, and attended the district school, and later 
Kimliall Union Academy. In 1SS3 he was gradu- 
ated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth 
College, and the following year took a post-gradu- 




j. LEAvrrr cain. 

ate course in New York city. He first settled in 
(irantham, in 1884, remaining five years, when he 
removed to Newport. He is one of the foremost 
physicians of the county, and has a line practice. 
He is a Mason, a member of Mount Vernon Lodge 
and of Sullivan Commandery at Claremont. In 
politics Doctor Cain is a Demn( rat, but has lieen 
too actively engaged in his pr<ifessi()n to seek any 
office. 



(Colby) Collins. His father was a successful ph\'- 
sician, and his mother was a member of the well 
known Colby family of Warner, Charles S. Collins 
was educated at ( 'ulb_\- .\ca(lemy. New London, 
from which he was graduated with honors in 1872, 
and at Boston Uni\-ersity. .Alter graduating in 
medicine, he settled in Nashua, where he was joined 
bv his father in a large and most successful prac- 
tice. Doctor Collins soon proved that he was gifted 
with extraordinary Inisiness instinct, and as a diver- 
sion from labor, took up, developed, and finally 
established the most successful business in mineral 
water e\'er known in America. It was through his 
energy and sagacity that the name ui Londonderry 
Lithia Water was made a household woril. The 
advertisements he designed were unique and con- 
vincing, always al)ounding in fresh ideas that made 
them notable. Licleed, Doctor Collins is every- 
where recognized as a "past master" in the art of 
advertising, and he is also a very clear and incisive 
writer on general subjects, impressing his \ igorous 
individuality upon the produtts of his pen. Another 
of his di\ertisements has been politics. In 1881, 




COLLIN.S, CiiARi.Ks S,. Ph)'si(ian and man of 
affairs, Nashua, was born in (Irafton, New Hamp- 
shire, in .April, i8q,3, son of W . .S. and llaiiiel W. 



C. S. COLLINS. 

Doctor Collins consented to enter 
the Senate against the Hon. D. .\.( 
strongest candidates in the tlistric t. 
was managed by the Doctor hiinse 
notable liy m.mv new (lc|i,ii 1 nrcs 



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can\ass for 
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^^F.X OF PRDORF.SS. 



politics, and by the Doctor's victory by one major- 
ity over tlie combined Democratic and Prohibition 
votes. He was elected to the Legislature in 1887, 
and introduced the first police commission bill, 
making a most vigorous tight for its enactment. 
The measure passed its third reading, and was de- 
feated only by filibu.stering in the closing hours of 
the session. Doctor Collins was for many years 
a member of the local Health Board, and was ap- 
pointed by Governor Husiel to the State Hoard of 
Health, a position he still holds. He is a member 
of the American J'ublic Health Association, a Ma- 
son, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, and belongs to 
a number of clubs. He is now retired from active 
business. 



CURlvIFK, .MuoDV, of Manchester, Thirty-eighth 
Governor of the State of New Hampshire, was born 
in Boscawen, New Hampshire, April 22, 1806. His 
boyhood, in its cares and duties, its pleasures and 
opportunities, was that of a typical lad on a typical 
New England farm ; but the success of the career 
to which it was the prelude was greater than that 
which has fallen to many of tlie successful men 
who have gone from the farm to gain distinction in- 
other walks of life. His schooling was of necessity 
slender, but the l)o_\- was of studious tastes and 
steadfast resolve ; he gave his evenings and other 
leisure hours to his books, and after a few months 
at Hopkinton Academy, was able to enter Dart- 
mouth College, where he was graduated in the class 
of 1834, with the honor of deli\ering the Greek 
oration. Upon leaving college, Mr. Currier, follow- 
ing the almost invariable custom of those times, 
devoted himself to teaching, first at Hopkinton 
Academy, and afterwards in the High School at 
Lowell, Massachusetts. .As an instructor he acquitted 
himself w'ith credit, but his ambiti(jn being for a 
more permanent profession and wider field of action, 
he made choice of the law, as better suited to his 
tastes and inclinations, and opening into fields of 
higher and broader activities. ILiving read the 
preparatory course during his spare hours while 
teaching, he was ready to enter at once upon the 
profession, hi i84i,he removed to Manchester, 
where he was admitted to the Bar, and soon found 
himself in a large and profitable business. For 
several years he remained in practice, but the 
rapidly developing manufacturing city offered finan- 
cial possibilities and opportunities for congenial and 
profitable business enterprises which led him grad- 
ually to abandon his practice, and engage in finan- 



cial operations. To banking he gave the best years 
of his life, and as a banker he was eminently suc- 
cessful. He organized and brought to high stand- 
ing the Amoskeag ]5ank, the Amoskeag Savings 
Bank, the Amoskeag National Bank, and the Peo- 







.MOODY Cl'RRIER. 

pie's Savings Bank ; and in addition to these under- 
takings he entered into and managed many other 
enterprises, in the conduct of which his wisdom 
and ability were repeatedly demonstrated. In poli- 
tical life Mr. Currier was speedily advanced to posts 
of trust and honor. He was Clerk of the State 
Senate in 1843, and a member of that body in 1856 
and 1857, being chosen its President in the latter 
year. As a member of the Governor's Council, in 
i860 and 1 86 1, he performed mo.st acceptably the 
heavy duties involved in the raising and equipping 
of troops to fill the state's quota in the Union army. 
He was elected Governor in 1884, and inaugurated 
in June of the following year, serving for two 
years with distinction and honor. Governor C'ur- 
rier's early love of books never waned, and busy as 
his life had been, he was ever a student. He was 
versed alike in the love of antiquity and in mod- 
ern literature, was master of many tongues, and 
devoted much time and thought to natural sciences 
and the theological discussions of the day. .\s 
{governor, his proclamations and other state papers 
attracted great attention, not only for their subject 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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matter, but also for the literar\' qualities they pos- 
sessed, qualities displayed even more strikingly in 
the poetic works Mr. Currier has given to the pub- 
lic. Among his best known poems are the '• Eter- 
nal One." "Questions of Life." ■•The (_)ld Man of 
the Mountain," and many others, while he pub- 
lished for pri\-ate circulation charming books of 
polished and felicitous \erse. The degree of LL.l). 
was conferred upon him by 1 )artmouth and by 
Bates College. Mr. Currier was thrice married. 
He died at his home in Manchester August 23, 
1898. 



HAINES, John Nowell, Manufacturer, Somers- 
worth, was born in that town, June 15, 1848, son 
of John L. and Theodata (Nowell) Haines. He 
comes of good old New England stock, and some of 
his mother's ancestors took part in the Revolution- 
ary War. He was educated in the common schools 
of his native town and at the High School in Great 
Falls, from which he was graduated in 1866. Later 
he attended Dummer College, Byfiekl, Massachu- 




J. N. HAINKS. 

setts, graduating in i86g. The following year he 
engaged as ship's yeoman on the United States 
Steamer Plymouth, which conveyed back to his na- 
tive state the remains of the philanthropist, (^eorge 
Peabody. \n 18.S0 he became engaged in the bus- 
iness of cotton waste and wiping slock, and this he 



still carries on. He was .Selectman of Somers- 
worth in i885-'86, and County Commissioner in 
iS93-'g6. He is a Mason, a member of Lybanus 
Lodge, No. 49, of .Somersworth, and Dover Lodge 
of Perfection; lirothers Lodge Knights of I'ythias 
of the same place, and l)o\er Lodge of Elks. He 
is Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias for 
New Hampshire. In politics Mr. Haines has 
always been a Republican. In January. 1880, he 
married Matilda Page. They had one daughter : 
Pauline Haines, now deceased. 



HUMPHREY. John. Manufacturer, Keene. was 
born in Lyndon, \'ermont, (October 12, 1834, son 
of John and Mary (Putnam) Humphrey. He is of 
English descent, being in the eighth generation 
from Jonas Humphrey, who came from Wendover, 
Pucks countv, and settled in Dorchester, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1637. The place which he purchased 
the day after his arrival, is still in possession of his 
descendant in the tenth generation. Mr. Humphrey 
received his education in the common schools in 
Lyndon and in Rindge, New Hampshire, and later 
spent two years in the Melville Academy at Jaffrey. 
From twelve to fifteen years of age he was em- 
ployed in a wooden ware factory at Rindge, and at 
sixteen took a position as clerk in a store. Return- 
ing to his former business, he was employed in 
Nelson, New Hampshire, until he was eighteen, 
when he invented a machine, and after engaging 
for a time in its manufacture, at Harrisville, rented 
a building and went into business for himself. At 
twenty-one he formed a partnership with Charles 
Puss of Marlborough, but the enterprise was not 
successful and ended after one year. In 1856 he 
removed to Keene, was employed by H. L. Ilaynes 
in the machine business until the spring of 1859, 
when he went to White River \'illage to put up a 
machine manufactory there. Becoming interested, 
he went into business in the town but after tuo 
years a disastrous tire compelled him to retire with 
no assets. His former employer at Keene, having 
assigned, Mr. Humphrey was asked to return and 
buyout the factory. This he did, in June. 1.S61, 
and has continued there ever since, with many 
enlargements to the Inisiness. Until iS-j 2 he en- 
gaged extensively in making" shoe peg mai-hines, of 
which he made more than any other factory, and 
other wood working machiner\'. .At present, the 
business consists mainly in niaiuilac luring water 
wheels. In 1873. the business was incorporated as 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the Ihiinphrey Macliinu C'onipany, and still Ijears 
tiiat name. In that year he began making turbine 
water wheels, under tlie name of I. X. L. Turbine 
Wheel, which is considered by tliose familiar with 
it, the most economical and serviceable wheel in 
the market. Mr. Humphrey was a member of the 
Legislature in iSGS-'Gg, County Commissioner in 




John IIUMPHRKY. 

i87o-'73, and Water Commissioner in iSSg-'Sg. 
He is a member of the .\merican Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers. In |jolitics he is a Republi- 
can. He married in 1855, Eunice D. Gilson of 
Plymouth, who died in January, 1890, leaving four 
daughters : Mary Etta, who died in November, 
1894; Harriet M., Mabel C, and Emmogene E. 
Humphrey. He was again married May 16, 1891, 
to Mrs. I'',liza ]. (Howard) Rice of Warren, Massa- 
chusetts. 



JONES, r'R.'VNK, E.\-Congressiiian. Capitalist, 
and ]5rewer, Portsmouth, was born in Harrington, 
New Hampshire, September 15, 1S32. He attended 
the common schools, and at the age of seventeen 
was engaged in the hardware and tin business in 
Portsmouth. He soon became a partner in the 
firm, and later sole proprietor of the establishment. 
From this beginning is traced a career that w-as one 
of the mo.st siicces.sful in the records of New Eng- 
land's self-made men, who by energy, foresight, and 



business ability have won for themselves fortune 
and high rank in the community. In 185S Mr. 
Jones became interested in the brewing business, 
which under his management has been developed to 
the first rank among the brewers of America. He 
has been closely identified with banks, railroads, 
and other great corporations. He is a Director 
of the Lancaster 'I'riist Company; of the Wolf- 
boro Loan ..V Hanking Company, and of the 
National Hank of Portsmouth ; President of the 
Portsmouth iv Dover Railroad; of the C.ranite 
State Fire Insurance Company; the Portsmouth 
I'ire Association, and the Portsmouth Shoe Com- 
pany. For many years he devoted much of his 
time to the active duties of the Presidency of the 
great Poston iV Maine Railroad. He is much inter- 
ested in hotel property, and is proprietor of " The 
Rockingham "' at Portsmouth and the " Wentworth " 
of Newcastle, two of the most famous hostelries in 
New England, built from structures of his own 
design, and erected and equipped under his own 
direction. In politics Mr. Jones has for several 
years been a leader of the New Hampshire Denioc- 




lk.\NK JONKS. 

racy. He was twice elected Mayor of Portsmouth, 
and was a member of the I'orty-fourth and Forty- 
fifth Congresses. His homestead property known 
as •■ The I'arm," about a mile from the Rocking- 
ham, of one thousand acres, enclosed with its 



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219 



hedges, charniing grounds. ;iiid rimserxatorics, and ily, six became teachers, one a lawyer, and two 
other appendages, is by his courtesy called the physicians. Josi.ih Parsons, the father, served as a 
" Public (harden of Portsmouth." Lieutenant in the War of 1.S12. and his father was a 

Revolutionary soldier. In the paternal line. Doctor 

HALE, \\'ii.i.i.\M S.\MUEi,, Manufacturer, Keene, Parsons's descent is traced from |ose].ih Parsons, 
was born in Dublin, New Hampshire, May 17, born in England, who emigrated to this country, 
1854, son of .Samuel Whitney and Emelia M. (Hay) Jnly, 1726, settling in Northampton, Massachusetts. 

In the maternal line, he is descended from {General 
Joseph Jiadger, who served in the Re\olution. 
Doctor Parsons attended the common schools of 
Cilmanton, and the Academy in that town. He 
began the stud\- of meclieine with Doctor Nahum 
Wight, with whom he remained for three years, at 
the same time taking courses of lectures at Dart- 
mouth Rtedical College. He also attended the 
\'ermont Medical College, from which he was grad- 
uated in June, 1.S51. He began practice with his 
brother. Doctor [oseiih 1!. Paisons. with whom he 
remained until 1S55. Subsetpientlv, after ])ractic- 
ing in Parrington for nine yeais and Antrim for 
rtfteen. Doctor William Parsons remo\ed to ]\hin- 
chester in A]iril, 1S73, and there he has e\er since 
lieen engaged in the active practice of his profe.s- 




WM. S. HALE. 

Hale. His grandparents were loseph l-'itch and 
Nancy Sanders Hav of Dublin, and Samuel and 
Salome Whitney Hale fif Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 
The family has long been prominent in New 
Hampshire, and his father was honored with an 
election as Coxernor of the state, William S. Hale 
was educated in the High School at Keene, and at 
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, where 
he htted for \'ale. He was graduated froiu college 
in the class of 1881. In the following year Mr. 
Hale began his business career as a manufacturer 
and has carried on a successfid business e\er since. 
In politics he is a Republican. Mv. Hale nuirried 
October 10, 1883, Panma Wheeler I'lost. 'I'hey 
lia\e f(iur i hildren : Ahirgaret, Samuel Whitney, 
Josephine and Rufus Erost Hale. 








PARSONS, Wii.i.i.v.M M., a veteran Physician of 
Manchester, was born in Gilmanton, New Hamp- 
shire, December 30, 1826, son of Josiah and Intlith 
(P.adger^ Parsons. ( )f the nine < liildicn (jf the fam- 



sion. He was a|ipoinled in 1 SS r ('hai 
Committee for the extermination of 
monia among cattle, a dise.ise ])ieva 
time, and his efforts were icmarkabh' 
lie was made .Xssisl.mt Surueon in the 



rm.ni of the 
plruro-pneu- 
lent at that 

successful. 

l''irst Keiri- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



nieiit New Hampshire National Ciuards, in 1883, 
and in 1884 was promoted to Surgeon. He was a 
member of the state Legishilure from Harrington in 
i872-'73. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, 
an Odd Fellow, a member of the Knights of Honor, 
and an Elk. He married in November, 1882, Mar- 
ion J., only daughter of the Hon. John and I )oro- 
thea (Jone.s) Hosley. He has one child: Martha 
C, born April 30, 1884. In his nearly one-half 
century of practice, Doctor Parsons has gained a 
reputation as one of the most successful physicians 
and surgeons of the state ; and he has been a pre- 
ceptor for a very large number of students, who 
subsequently ha\e attained success in their profes- 
sion. 



PILLSBURY, Parker, one of the heroes of 
New England's famous "Abolition Trinity " (Garri- 
son, Phillips, Pillsbury ) and its last survivor, w^ho 
for nearly half a century, in perils and hardships, 
devoted himself heart and soul to pleading the 
cause of the oppressed, denouncing iniquitous, 
superstitious, bigoted laws and practices, and de- 
manding the removal of the yoke that held the 
colored race in cruel bondage, was born in Hamil- 
ton, Essex county, Massachusetts, September 22, 
1809. He was the son of Deacon Oliver and Anna 
(Smith) Pillsbury. and the eldest of a family of 
eleven children. His father, a native of Newbury, 
Massachusetts, son of Parker, first, and Sarah 
(Dickinson) Pillsbury. was of the si.xth generation 
in descent from William Pillsbury, who married 
Deborah Crosby in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 
1 641, and afterw-ard settled in Newbur)-, the line 
being as follows : William's son Moses, his grand- 
son, Moses, Jr., and his great-grandson, Moses 
third, who married Mary Parker, and was the 
father of Parker Pillsbury first. Oliver Pillsbury, 
when four years old, was taken by his parents to 
West Boscawen, now Webster, New Hampshire, 
where he grew to manhood. At nineteen years of 
age he returned to Newbury. Massachusetts, where 
he learned the blacksmith's trade, and subsequently 
completed his schooling at Dummer Academy. 
Here he made the acquaintance of his future wife, 
Anna Smith, daughter of Philemon Smith. They 
were married December 8, 1808, and settled in 
Hamilton. Mas.sachusetts, where he worked at his 
trade until 1S14. The hard times caused by the 
w-ar with England then led him to remove to a farm 
in Henniker, New Hampshire, to buy which he 
incurred a debt of Si, 500.00. With the conclusion 



of peace the price of farm produce fell, and to free 
himself from this burden, cost many years of severe 
toil. He was public spirited and religious, a 
Deacon in the church, earnestly interested in tem- 
perance, and in the abolition of slavery, and was 
ever ready to lend a hand to local benevolent 
enterprises. Oliver Pillsbury died in 1857. His 
wife, a most estimable woman of .strong character, 
survived him about twelve years, retaining her 
faculties to a marked degree at the advanced age 
of ninety-four. Eight of their eleven children 
survived the parents, namely : Parker, Josiah W., 
(father of Albert E., Ex-Attorney General of Mas- 
sachusetts) Gilbert, Oliver, Jr., Eliza A., Harriet, 
Mary S., and Moses D. Parker Pill.sbury, the Radi- 
cal and the Reformer, obtained such education in 
his boyhood as was afforded by the district schools 
of Henniker. but always had to help in the work of 
the home farm, \\hen about twenty years old, he 
was employed in driving an express wagon from 
Lynn, Massachusetts, to Boston. Subsequently he 
returned to Henniker, and devoted himself to farm- 
ing. Becoming zealously religious, he was urged 
to prepare himself for the ministry. Acting upon 
this advice, he pursued a course of study at Gil- 
manton. New Hampshire, and at the Andover 
Theological Seminary. " In less than four years 
from the reaper and the plough " he was licensed 
to preach by the Suffolk Association of Boston, and 
was settled over the Congregational " Meeting- 
house " Society for a year, i839-'4o, at Loudon, 
New Hampshire. But as the Christian Church was 
at that time ■■ the bulwark of American slavery," 
as William Lloyd Garrison truly said, it could not 
and would not tolerate Parker Pillsbury, In the 
pulpit he was deeply sincere, earnest, and scathing 
in his denunciation of that " sum of all villainies," 
human slavery. Inasmuch as his whole moral 
nature had been roused against that institution, by 
the fearful outrages which were being perpetrated 
upon the abolitionists, he abandoned the Christian 
ministry, and espoused the anti-slavery- cause in 
1840 as a working apostle. His first lecture on 
the subject of slavery was given in Fitchburg, 
Massachusetts. After leaving the ministry, his first 
anti-slavery work in New Hampshire was to con- 
duct the •• Herald of Freedom " for a time in the 
absence of the editor. Nathaniel P. Rogers. Then 
as he says, he entered " the lecture field with the full 
resolve to see the overthrow of the Southern slave 
system or perish in the conflict." There he stood 
with Garrison. Phillips. Rogers, Foster. Higginson, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



and other heroic leaders as James Russell Lowell 
describes him : 

" Beyond, a crater in each eye, 
Sways brown, broad-shouldered Pillsbury, 
Who tears up words like trees by the roots, 
A Theseus in stout cowhide boots. 
The wager of eternal war 
Against the loathsome Minotaur, 
To whom we sacrifice each year 
The best blood of our Athens here. 
A terrible denouncer he. 
Old .Sinai burns unquenchably 
Upon his li])s ; he well might he a 
Hot blazing soul from fierce Judea, — 
Habakkuk, Ezra, or Hosea, — 
His words burn as with iron searers." 



man, " who looked daggers but 



And this stron 

never used one," ne\er tlinched, in the face of peril 




l'.\KKKK FILI.Sl'.URV. 

detestation, and obloquy. ■■ to dare for the right.'' 
The great work of Parker Pillsbury, and the esteem 
in which he was held by his fellow laborers in this 
truly heroic period of the Republic, may be judged 
from the following citations : " Could you know him 
and his history," wrote Wendell Phillips to Elizabeth 
Pease, in 1853, "you would value him. Originally 
a wagoner, he earned enough to get educated. 
When just ready to be settled, the F'aculty of Ando- 
ver Theological Seminary threatened him that they 
would never recommend him to a parish unless he 
gave up speaking in anti-sla\ery meetings. He 



chose us, and sacrificed all the benefits (worldly 
and pecuniary) of his hard-earned education. His 
course since has been worthy of this beginning." 
William Lloyd Oarrison wrote the following, just 
after passing the three-score and ten milestone of 
life : " Dear h'riend Pillsbury — I did not mean that 
a fortnight should elapse before answering your let- 
ter, the receipt of which gave me much pleasure, 
not alone because of the stirring memories of Auld 
Lang Syne awakened by it, but also for its very 
kind and fraternal spirit. Your coming into the 
field of conflict was specially timely, and displayed 
on your part rare moral courage and a martyr readi- 
ness to meet whatever of religious obloquy, popular 
derision, social outlawry, mobocratic violence, or 
deadly peril, might confront you as the outspoken 
and uncompromising advocate of immediate and 
unconditional emancipation. For then the aspect of 
things was peculiarly disheartening, a formidable 
schism existing in the anti-sla\ery ranks, and the 
pro-slavery elements of the country in furious com- 
motion. But you stood at your post with the faith- 
fulness of an Abdiel ; and whether men would hear 
or forbear, you did not at any time to the end of the 
struggle, fail to speak in thunder tones in the ear of 
the nation, exposing its blood-guiltiness, warning it 
of the wrath to come, and setting forth the duty of 
thorough repentance and restitution. If you re- 
sorted to a ram's horn instead of a silver trumpet, it 
was because thus only, could the walls of our slave- 
liolding Jericho be shaken to their o\erthrow, — you, 
too, have seen of the tra\ail of your soul, and may 
well be satisiied, Laus Deo." Said Wendell Phil- 
lips, in 1S60: '-We are charged with lacking fore- 
sight, and said to exaggerate. This charge of 
exaggeration brings to my mind a fact 1 mentioned 
last month in Plorticultural Hall. 'I'he theatres in 
many of our large cities bring out, night after 
night, all the radical doctrines and all the startling 
scenes of ' l^ncle Tom's Cabin.' The\- preach 
inunediate emancipation ; and slaves shoot their 
hunters, to loud applause. 'I'wo years ago, sitting 
in this hall, I was myself somewhat startled by the 
assertion of my friend, Parker Pillsbury, that the 
theatres would receive the Gospel of anti-sla\ery 
truth earlier than the churches. A hiss went up 
from the galleries, and many in the audience were 
shocked by the remark. I asked myself whether I 
could endorse such a statement, and felt 1 could 
not. I could not beliexe it tn be tliie. ( )nl\ two 
years have |)assed, and what was then deemetl laiit 
and fanaticism, by seven out of ten who licird it. 



MKN OF PROGRESS. 



has proved true. The theatre bowing to its aiuH- 
ence, has preached immediate emancipation and 
given us the whole of ' Uncle Tom.' while the pul- 
pit is either silent or hostile, and in the columns of 
the theological papers, the work is subjected to criti- 
cism, to reproach, and its author to severe rebuke. 
Do not, friends, therefore set down as extravagant, 
every statement which your experience does not 
warrant. It may he that you and I have not studied 
the signs of the times quite as accurately as the 
speaker. Going up and down the land, coming into 
clo.se contact with the feelings and prejudices of the 
community, he is sometimes abetter judge tiian you 
are of its present slate." Mr. Pillsbury edited the 
National Standard in iS66. In i<S6S and 1S70. he 
was the I'.ditor, with Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 
of the Revolution, a journal devoted to the cause 
of Woman's Suffrage, and published in New York 
city. -Vfterwards he was a lecturer for Free Reli- 
gious Societies in Salem and Toledo, Ohio, Battle 
Creek, Michigan, and other Western towns and 
cities. Most of his time since the abolition of slav- 
ery has been spent in the direction of radical reform 
in religion and social economy. To this end he 
has publislied numerous pamphlets, which, while 
characterized by keen satire, are also full of a deep 
sense of religious freedom and fellowship, means 
which he believed were ultimately to unite mankind 
in a Universal Scientific Religion. On January i, 
1840, he married Sarah H. Sargent, daughter of 
Doctor John I., and Sally (Wilkins) Sargent, of 
Concord. New Hampshire. The home life of Mr. 
Pillsbur)- was delightful and hap])v. the domestic 
atmosphere invigorating and wholesome. Mrs. 
Pillsbury was born in Loudon, New- Hampshire, 
and was not only an ardent sympathizer with her 
husband in his anti-slavery work, but a helpmeet 
in every sense. What ostracism she underwent in 
social life because of her husband's and her own 
opinion ! She withdrew from the church in which 
her life was inwrought, rather than partake of the 
Communion at the hands of a minister who sanc- 
tioned the slaver)' of human beings. Put she lived 
to see the triumph of the cause for which she and 
her devoted husband sacrificed so much. Mr. Pills- 
bury was one of the Trustees in charge of a fund of 
$40,000, bequeathed in 1859. by Charles V. Hovey, 
a philanthropic merchant of Boston, to be used in 
behalf of anti-slavery, woman's rights, and other 
reforms. Exigencies of the Civil War and the 
needs of the colored race made such demands on 
this fund that the whole amount was e.vpended lie- 



fore any of it could be devoted to its other purposes, 
dear alike to its testator and to Mr. Pillsbury, among 
them being the movement to secure lasting peace 
among nations. Mr. and Mrs. Pillsbury always 
made their home in Concord, New Hampshire. 
They had but one child. Helen Buffum, who was 
Ixirn June 14, 1843. She married Hon. Parsons 
Brainard Cogswell, Kx-Mayor of Concord, and one 
of New Hampshire's best-known journalists, and 
the founder of 'I'he Daily Monitor. Parker Pills- 
bury's most \aluable contribution to historical liter- 
ature is contained in his "Acts of the Anti-Slavery 
Apostles,'' published in 1883. A touching incident 
which occurred, shows somewhat the appreciation 
of the race which Mr. Pillsbury so nobly helped to 
emancipate. On a beautiful d,ay in the summer of 
1897, a ]5arty of colored students from South Caro- 
lina, headed by their President, called upon Mr. 
and Mrs. Pillsbury. at their home in C"oncord. 
'Fhey came to bless their aged benefactors, and to 
jjour out their plaintive songs of thanksgiving and 
benediction upon the family ; the serene and benign 
countenance of the wife and mother, happy in well- 
doing, the strong but mellowed face of the hero 
reformer, who had "dared to be right, dared to be 
true," and who liad felt that he had a " work that 
no other could do." It was a picture good to look 
upon, for it renewed one"s faith in the potency of 
ideas, and the ultimate triumph of right. Just a 
year later, July 7. 1898. this reformer, hero, and 
honest man, left this world, which is the belter for 
his havinir lived in it. 



PEETON, F'r.ank Bailey, Supervising Principal 
of Public Schools, Littleton, was born in Lyme, 
New Hampshire, April 23, 1872, son of David 
Brewster and Mary Moore (Bailey) Pelton. He is 
descended from good, old English stock. In a 
recently published genealog)' the Pelton family is 
traced back to 1086 A. 1). His great-grandfather, 
Joseph Pelton, was a Revolutionary soldier and a 
pioneer settler of I.xnie. On the maternal side his 
great-great-grandfatlur was a Major in the Con- 
tinental .Army in the Revolution and a .settler of 
Bath. New Hanqishire. Professor Pelton received 
his early education in the schools of Lyme and 
Hanover. It was the ambition of his youth to be 
graduated from Dartmouth, and though his means 
were straitened, he jiluckily set himself to the 
task of making his ambition a fact. Without 
instructor or ad\iser he completed his preparatory 



MEN OV I'ROCRKSS. 



studies, and in June, 1S89. hf passed liis examina- 
tions for admission to the college. During his 
course at Dartmouth he supported himself by 
teaching in winter and working in summer, and in 
1893 was graduated with his class, receiving the 
B. A. degree. He received his M. A. in 1S96. 
For a year after graduation he was Principal of the 
High School at Wilton, New Hampshire, and then 
accepted his present position in I>iUleton. Under 
his charge the schools of the town have progressed 
steadily, and the numlier of pupils from other 
places has increased. The schools have lieen 
regraded and the High School curriculum now 
meets the maximum rec|uirements of all colleges. 




F. I!. PELTON. 

This school has graduates in 1 )arlminitii. Smith, 
Mt. Holyoke, Boston University, lloston I, aw 
School, and Buffalo I'liiversity. Through I'ro- 
fessor Pelton's efforts it has one of the best school 
laboratories in the state. Littleton has twice shown 
its a|)preciation of his wurk l)\' substantial and 
unsolicited increases in salary. He was Bresidenl 
of the Grafton County Teachers' Association in 
i896-'97. and a member of the Slate lli>aid of 
Examiners of 'I'eachers in 1897. He is a mend)cr 
of the Kappa Kappa Kappa Society, the Masons, 
and the C'oashauke Club. In pohtics he is a 
Republican. He is utnnarried. 



STONE, CiiARi.KS v., Ex-Naval ( )fticer of Port 
of lioston. Lawyer, Laconia and Manchester, was 
born ALiv 21. 1843, son of Levi H. and Clarissa (Os- 
good) Stone. He is a great-grandsun of Deacon 
ALathias Stone, one of the early settlers of the town 
of Claremont, whence his grandfather, John Stone, 
with three of his brothers emigrated in 1794 to 
Northern Vermont, being among the first settlers 
of the town of Cabot, where they cleared up farms 
and reared large families. John Stone had ten 
children and of his seven sons, four became 
Congregational ministers, Levi H., the second 
son, being one of the number. Charles E. 
Stone was the youngest of eight children by 
the first wife of Le\i H. Stone, and his mother 
dying at his birth, he was innnediately taken to the 
home of his grandfather, John .Stone, where he re- 
mained until he reached manhood. His father was 
a very able preacher and pulpit orator of the first 
rank. He held a nund)er of pastorates, the last 
being at Paw let. I'or two sessions he was Chap- 
lain of the ^'ermonl State .Senate. He was a strong 
Union man at the lime of the war and spoke at 
many war meetings for the encouragement of en- 
listments, his efforts lieing rewarded Ijy the direct 
results in ralhing volunteers. The Re\erencr Levi 
.Stone was a Chaplain of the l^'irst \'erinont Kegi- 
ineiit, and fijur of his S(ins were in the I'nion ser- 
vice during the war, — two of them were taken pris- 
oners of war, one being confmed at Lif)l:)v and the 
other at Andersonville. I'or se\eral \ears after the 
close of his last pastorate Mr. Stone was Agent for 
the \'ermont Temperance .Society. He tiled at 
Castleton, in 1891, at the age of eight\'-fi\e Aears. 
The boyhood of llie subject of this sketch was 
passed upon his grandfather's farm, where though 
his educational advantages weie necessarily lim- 
ited, he won a vigorous physique and where there 
sprang up a delerminalion to make a mark in the 
world. At the age of twenty iie started oul strong 
in the determination to accpiire an education to 
enter upon a profession. He attended the academy 
of Barre, Vermont, and for two years fitted for col- 
lege, entering Middlebuiv in 18(15, being graduated 
in the class of i86(). lie paid his own \\a\ ,it the 
college, as he paid it at th(,' .u,uleni\. In the win- 
ter he lauglit in the district school ,md also in sing- 
ing schools. He was an excellent musician, natur- 
ally, and from his nineteenth year until his \-oice 
was weakened by an atl.u k of pneumonia, a ])eriod 
of twent\'-five years, he was Direrlor of a choir in 



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one place or another. After liis graduation from 
college, he became a law student in the office of 
Ex-Governor John W. Stewart of Middlebur}-, and 
at the same time served for a )-ear as Principal of a 
graded school of that place. In 1870 he went to 
Laconia, continuing the study of his profession in 
the office of Hon. I'^llery A. llihbard. He was ad- 
mitted to the Har in 1872 and was taken into part- 
nership by the late George W. Stevens, a connec- 
tion which continued for a year. For the ne.xt 
seven years, Mr. Stone practiced alone, meeting 
with much success, and devoting himself to his pro- 
fessional labors. He formed a partnership with 
Erastus P. Jewell in i.SSo. untler the name of Jew- 




\ 



C. I'. STONli. 

ell & Stone, which still continues. Mr. Stone was 
reared as a Republican in politics. He was an 
anti-sla\ery man, and all through the reconstruc- 
tion period and some years later, he continued in 
alliance with this party, although he took no active 
part in the political afTairs beyond the town organi- 
zation. About twenty years ago, however, he be- 
came dissatisfied with the Republican policy in 
connection with financial and revenue matters, and 
ceased his affiliations with the organization. I'pon 
the opening of the Presidential campaign in 1880, 
Mr. Stone took the .stump for Hancock and Eng- 
lish, and proved a most effective campaign orator. 
He w^as made Chairman of the Democratic State 



Committee in 18S.'. tf) which position he was twice 
re-elected. During all these years he continued 
one of the most acti\e members of the party cam- 
paigners. He was a member of the State Legisla- 
ture from Laconia in i883-"84, and again in 1887- 
'88. At the former session he served upon the 
Committees on National Affairs and Railroads, and 
in the latter upon the Judiciary and State Normal 
School Committees. In railroad fights of these 
sessions, Mr. Stone took a prominent part. He 
was commissioned Naval Officer at Boston, July 3, 
1894, and upon the expiration of his term in the 
spring of 189S, he resumed the practice of law in 
this state, and opened a branch office of his law 
lirm in Manchester. At all times, Mr. Stone has 
been greatly interested in educational affairs in 
Laconia, and was a member of the Poard of Edu- 
cation and served as President of the Board ; for 
two years he was a member of the Board of Trus- 
tees of the State Normal School. Mr. Stone be- 
came a Mason at the age of twenty-one. He is a 
member of the Patrons of Husbandry, and belongs 
to Laconia Grange, and I5elknap County Pomona 
(Jrange. He married, July 7, 1870, Minnie A. 
Nichols of Sudbury, Vermont, who died September 
22, 1875, leaving one daughter. Flora I\L Stone. 
Mr. Stone married September 12, 1896, Mrs. Isa- 
bel Smith Munsey of Laconia. In religious mat- 
ters, Mr. Stone is of the progressive and liberal 
tvpe and has long been connected actively with the 
Laconia I'nitarian church. 



AMSDEN, Ch.vri.es Huhhard, was born in Bos- 
cawen. New Hampshire, July 8, 1848, son of Henry 
H. and Mary (Muzzey) Amsden. After completing 
his course in the public schools he attended .Apple- 
ton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and 
upon the completion of his studies he entered the 
employ of his father in the furniture manufacturing 
business, being placed in charge of his office. 
During the vacation season of his early school-days, 
and subsequently, he passed his time in the factory, 
where he became familiar with the trade in all its 
branches, as well as with the difficulties and annoy- 
ances under which the workmen labored, an experi- 
ence which afterwards served him in good stead, 
enabling him to fully .sympathize with them and 
understand their position. In a short time a 
co-partnership was formed under the finn name of 
H. H. Amsden (.V Sons. 'I'he father and brother, 
George H., died soon after, leaving Charles H. as 



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225 



the sole survivor of the name. He iiKide extensive 
additions to the property from time to time as the 
needs of the business required, and for more than 
twenty years conducted the most extensive furni- 
ture manufacturing business in New England. He 
was also largely interested in the lumber business, 
the latter being conducted under tlie firm name of 
John \Miitaker & Company. He was one of the 
organizers of the Concord Axle Company, and for 
a time its President and largest stockholder. He 
is at the present time a member of the Hoard of 
Directors of the Granite State Fire Insurance C'om- 
pany, and the Portland & Ogdensburgh Railroad. 
]3v reason of a combination of circumstances, 




tHARI.ES H. Y\MS])EN. 

reverses overtook him in the panic of i<S93, at 
which time he gave up business. Soon after, he 
accepted the position of Deputy Naval Officer, 
Boston, which relation he now sustains. Mr. 
Amsden has always taken great interest in what- 
ever contributed to the growth and prosperity of 
the community. It was through his instrumentali- 
ties that the developments at West Penacook were 
carried out, resulting in the establishment of the 
Concord Manufacturing Company's business at that 
place and the extension of the Concord Street Rail- 
way to Contoocook River Park, he giving the right 
of way and selling a large tract of land at a nomi- 
nal price. In 1S74-75 he represented his ward in 



the cit\' of Concord on the Board of Aldermen, and 
he was a member of the State Senate in 1883, and 
candidate for Governor in 18S8 and 1890. During 
the World's Exposition in Chicago in 1892 he was 
a member of the State Board of Commissioners 
and President of that body. ITpon the agita- 
tion of the achisability of introducing water into 
Boscawen from Great Pond, he was a strong advo- 
cate of the project, believing it to be for the public 
good. He was Chairman of the Board of Com- 
missioners, and it was largely through his interest 
that a precinct was formed and favorable action 
taken towards installing the system and the work 
carried on to completion, thus furnishing the town 
of Boscawen, and that portion of Concord lying 
north of the Contoocook river, with one of the best 
systems of water supply to be found in the state. 
Few men in the state have done more towards its 
advancement, or are better known and more highly 
respected. Although unfortunate in a material point 
of view, Mr. Amsden still retains a wealth of 
friends. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, 
being a member of Horace Chase Lodge of Pena- 
cook, Mount Horeb Commandery of Concord, and 
Aleppo Temple of Boston. He was married ( )cto- 
ber 29, 1S70, to Helen A. Brown of Penacook. Of 
this union there were born three children : Henrv 
Hubbard, born July 15, 1872; Mary Ardelle, born 
January 31, 1878, died October 20, 1883; and 
Ardelle Brown Amsden, born December 3, 18S5, 
died June 10, 1S87. Mrs. Amsden died August 6, 
1891. 



REED, William J., of Park Hill, an official of 
the United States Senate, was born in Westmore- 
land, New Hampshire, March 17, 1 841, son of John 
and Eunice (Cobb) Reed. His great-grandfather, 
Simeon Cobb, was a Captain of Infantry in the 
Revolutionary War, and one of the earliest settlers 
of Westmoreland ; his grandfather, Simeon Cobb, 
2d, who was prominent in the affairs of the state, 
and a Brigadier-General of state troops, built several 
locks in the Erie Canal. His father, John Reed, a 
railroad contractor, died in the West, when tlie sub- 
ject of this sketch was but fourteen years old. Mr. 
Reed attended the common schools of his nati\e 
town. Valley Seminary, and Westmoreland Semin- 
ary. Upon his graduation he became a clerk for 
J. W. Leonard of Park Hill, with whom he remained 
for nine years. Subsequently he was engaged in 
the produce business up to 1890. Me has always 
been an active Republican. For twelve years he 



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was a member of the School Board of his native 
town, taking a keen interest in the welfare of the 
schoo's. In 1878 he was elected to the Legislature, 
and in the following year declined a renomination. 
He was elected to the House in 1887 and 1889, and 
t(i the Senate in 1895. He has been an earnest 




WM. J. UKKIi. 

supporter of Williani K. C'iiaiidler, and claims the 
honor of being the only member of the Legislature 
to vote for Mr. Chandler in three elections to the 
United Stales Senate. During the lifty-first Con- 
gress Mr. Reed served as an oflficial of the National 
House, and during the fifty-second as an official of 
the Senate, hi 1892 he was connected with a 
wholesale produce house in Providence, but was 
soon urged to return to Westmoreland and accept a 
nomination to the State Senate. This he did and 
ill 1894 was elected to that body. Two years later 
he resumed his Senate position in Washington. Mr. 
Reed is a music lover, and a member of the District 
Choral Society of Washington. He is a member of 
the National and Stale (Grange. He married in 
1865 Pauline !•'. Ciriffin of Somerville, Massachu- 
setts, who (lied October 24, 1873. His second 
wife, to whom he was married June 16, 1876, was 
Lizzie Irene Waters, daughter of William and Caro- 
line Waters of Milllniry, Massachusetts. He has 
one son : Wilfred G. Reed, born July 10, 1870, who 
is an electrical engineer. 



(iOVE, Jesse Morse, Lawyer, Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, was born in Weare, New Hampshire, 
December 11, 1852, son of Dana Buzzell and 
Susan (Morse) Gove. He is of English descent, 
his paternal ancestors coming to this country about 
1642, and his maternal ancestors about 1636. He 
was educated in the private and public schools of 
Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied law with his 
father in Boston, and was admitted to the Bar, May 
5. 1875. Since this time, he has been in active 
practice in Boston. In 1881, he was a member of 
the ("ciiiiiuon Council of that city; in 1888 and '89 
a member of the Board of Aldermen, and in 1883, 
1884, and 1885, a member of the Mas.sachusetts 
Legislature. He is a Mason and Knights Templar. 
In politics Mr. Gove is a Republican, and was a 
delegate to the National Conventions of his party 
in 1884, 1888, 1892, and 189C. He married, 
August 16, 1882, Agnes E. Ballantyne. They have 
two children : Dana Ballantyne and Edward James 
Gove. 



HAR\ lA. Ai.iuoN K. P., Physician, Somers- 
vvorth, was born in Dixtield. Maine, May 9, 1855, 
son of Albert and Satira (Eastman) Harvey. His 
father was the son of r)aniel W. Harvey, one of the 
pioneers of ( ).\f(ird county. His mother was the 
daughter of William Eastman, of Rumford, Maine, 
also an ( ).\for(l countv pioneer. His father was a 
fanner, and enlisted in the Thirtieth Maine Regi- 
ment in February, 1864, and recei\ed a mortal 
wound in the battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, in 
June, 1864. Doctor Harvey was educated in the 
common schools until he was fourteen years of age, 
when he attended Yarmouth and Hebron Acad- 
emies, where he prepared for college. He was first 
employed in a drug store in Boston for three years, 
and then began the study of medicine with Doctor 
H. C, Bradford, of Lewiston, Maine. After three 
years, he was graduated from the Chicago Homteo- 
pathic Medical College, in 1884. Since then he has 
taken five courses in the New York Post-Graduate 
Medical School and Hospital, and still makes a 
practice of going there every year. He began the 
practice of his profession in Lewiston, in 1884, re- 
maining there eleven years. In January. 1895, he 
removed to Somersworth, where he has ])racticed 
ever since. Doctor Harvey is a member of the 
Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire Homa- 
opalhic Medical Associations, of the Boston Surgi- 
cal Society, and the Somersworth Club. For two 
years of his residence in Lewiston he was City Phy- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



227 



sician. In politics he is an Independent, and in 
religion a Congregationalist. He was married, No- 
vember II, 1878, to Fanny G. Niles, of Canton. 
Maine, the daughter of a soldier who fell in the 
Civil War. 



HASLET, Georce \V., Mill Superintendent, 
Hillsborough, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 
October 24, 1859, son of George and Eliza (Ham- 
ilton) Haslet. His father was born in Hallowell, 
Maine, and his mother in Searsmont, Maine. Mr. 
Haslet was educated in the common schools of 
Boston and of Somerville, Massachusetts. After 
completing his education he entered the employ of 
Rufus T. Frost & Company, dry goods commission 
merchants of Boston, remaining with them three 
years. In 1880 he went to Hillsborough and ac- 
cepted a position as bookkeeper for the Hillsbor- 
ough \\'oolen Mill. After a time he became Super- 
intendent of the mill, which position he still occu- 
pies. The mill employs about one hundred and 
eighty hands, and manufactures woolen goods of all 
grades. Mr. Haslet is Vice-President of the First 
National Bank in Hillsborough, a member of the 
School Board, Trustee of the Fuller Public Library, 
and was for si.x years Fire Commissioner of the 
town. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, a 
member of Mount Horeb Commandery, Knights 
Templar, and is the .Secretary and Past Master of 
Harmony Lodge of Hillsborough. He is a Con- 
gregationalist, and in politics is a Republican. In 
October, 1885, Mr. Haslet was married to Maiy G. 
Dutton, of Hillsborough, who died in February, 
1887. 



KNOWLTON, Edcar Jay, Postmaster and E.x- 
Mayor of Manchester, was born in Sutton, New 
Hampshire, August 8, 1856, son of James and 
Mary F. (Marshall) Knowlton. His family is Eng- 
lish, the family being traced back to 1500. A num- 
ber of its members took an active part in the colo- 
nies' successful struggle for freedom. Mr. Knowlton 
attended the common schools of Sutton, and in 
1873, removed ^'^ Manchester, where he entered the 
office of the Union as printer's devil. He worked 
his way up through the mechanical department of 
the paper, and became a reporter and fmally City 
Editor. In May, 1880, he accepted the Managing 
Editorship of the Lockport (New York) Daily Union 
and Niagara Democrat, a weekly paper, holding the 
position until he received a liberal offer from the 



Manchester Mirror to become its City Editor. He 
returned to the Union as its City Editor, in 18S4, 
remaining with that paper until 1S90. He was the 
first Secretary of the Manchester Board of Trade. 
In 1885, he was elected to the Legislature, and in 
November, 1S90, he was elected Mayor of Man- 
chester, receiving a re-election two years later. His 
popularity with the voters was shown by the fact 
that he received the largest majority ever accorded 
to a Democratic candidate for Mayor. He was ap- 
pointed Po.stniaster in May, 1894. His administra- 
tion of the office lias been highly successful, and 
under his direction the postal facilities of the city 
have been greatly enlarged and improved. Mr. 
Knowlton is a member of the Calumet Club of 
Manchester, the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, 
Red Men, Ancient Order of United \\'orkmen, and 
Patrons of Husbandry. Mr. Knowlton married, 
November 2, 1880, Genevieve I. Blanchard. They 
have two daughters: Bessie G. and Belle F. Knowl- 
ton. 




ji. w. BoirrwKi.L. 



QUIMBY, John Grant, Physician, Lakeport, 
was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, Aj^ril 8, 
1862, son of Joseph H. and Nancy J. (Fogg) 
Quimby. He attended the common schools of 
Sandwich, the New Hampshire Literary Institution, 
and Nichol's Latin School of Lewiston, Maine, 



228 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



from which he was graduated in 18S5. He be- 
came a stiidcni in the Medical Department of ]Jow- 
doin University, and attained his degree of M. D., 
June 27, 1888. Until 1892 he was in practice in 
Eakeport, but in that year he removed to New 
Hampton, where he remained for two years. He 
then returned to Lakeport, and has since practiced 
medicine in that place. For three years he was 
City Physician; since 1894 he has been County 
Physician. He is a member of the Hoard of Edu- 
cation, his term e.xpiring in 1900. He is a member 
of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and of the 
Winnipesaukee Academy of Medicine. He is a 
Knight of Pythias; Past Chancellor Commander 
and member of the Grand I-odge. and of J. A. 
Greene Company, Uniform Rank Knights of Pyth- 
ias : of Mount Lebanon Lodge, Ancient Free and 
Accepted Masons of Laconia ; of Pilgrim Com- 
mandery, Knights Templar, and is a Thirty-second 
Degree Mason. In politics he is a Republican. 
Doctor Quimby was married June 28, 1888, to 
Mary L Davis. They have one child : Havene 
.Muv ()uimbv. 




1. LAKlLk. 



and shoe maker, and was active in military affairs. 
Mr. Moody at fourteen years of age was appren- 
ticed to Russell \V. Farwell, shoe manufacturer, of 
Claremont, with whom he remained four years. In 
1861 he enlisted in Troop I, New England Cavalry, 
and served some time. In the fall of 1862 he was 
engaged as travelling salesman for a Boston shoe 
house, and in 1867 was taken into partnership, the 
lirm becoming McGibbons, Moody & Radlin. 
Although equipped with but small capital, by his 
energy he made the business successful. He 
became a partner in Grain, Moody & Rising, in 
1873. This firm established a factory at Amoskeag 
and Nashua, where they employed one hundred 
hands, making shoes for the southern and western 
trade. In need of larger quarters they removed to 
Nashua a few years later, and there carried on 
business successfully for seven years, at the close of 
which time the lirm of Moody, Estabrook & Ander- 
son was reorganized. Under Mr. Moody's man- 
agement the factor)' became one of the largest in 
the country, doing a business of over two million 
dollars annually. Impaired health caused his retire- 
ment in 1S96. In 1S78 he bought what was known 
as the Mann farm, about a mile south of Claremont 
village, then containing eighty-seven acres. The 
place, now known as Highland \'iew, has been 
greatly enlarged, now contains si.\ hundred acres, 
and is one of the finest in Sulli\an county, the 
splendid residence being situated upon an emi- 
nence commanding a wide sweep of country. A 
beautiful winding drive connects it witli the high- 
way. Mr. Moody takes much pleasure in tine 
horses, and has had as many as one hundred and 
seventy-five at a time, included in the list being a 
number of thoroughbreds and fast trotters. He is 
known as a man of broad and liberal views, has 
done much to advance the interests of Claremont, 
and owns the Hotel Claremont, which cost one 
hundred and twenty thou.sand dollars and is one 
of the finest hotels in the state. He married Mary 
A. Maynavd. dnughter of Levi P. and Lorana (Orr) 
Mavnartl. 



MOODY, Wii.r.iAM Henry Harrison, Retired 
Manufacturer, Claremont, was born in that town, 
May 10, 1842, the seventh son in a family of eleven 
children. His father, Jonathan Moody, was a boot 



PKAHCnn', Chari.es A., Lawyer, New York, 
was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, July 10, 
1814. son of Samuel and Abigail (Wood) Peabody. 
On the paternal side he is of Welsh descent. One 
of his ancestors, Richard Peabody, was an officer 
in the Revolution, who had a command at Ticon- 
deroga and elsewhere. His maternal grandmother 
was a descendant of Sir Matthew Hale. Mr. Pea- 



MEN Ol' 1'R()(;RESS. 



!29 



Ills pen, was published in tiie Transactions of tliu 
New Hampshire Medical Society in 1S95. Dr. 
Saltmarsh was a member of the New Hampshire 
Legislature in 1S05-1896. He is an ( )dd Fellow 
and Knii;']it of l'\tliias. He married Jul)- 23, 189 i, 
Mima, daughter of Lenoard R. and Mary C Avery, 
of Portland, Maine. 'I'hev lia\e two children : 



body studied under pri\ate tutors at his father's 
home, and at Wolfboro, (lilford, Tilton, and Cil- 
manton. He taught in schools at lleverly, Massa- 
chusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland, studied law at 
Harvard, being graduated in 1837, and went to 
New York in iSy), where he entered upon the 
active practice of his profession. Although a 
strong Whig he took no acti\e part in politics until Robert C. and Arthur i\very Saltmarsh 

1 85 3, when he helped to organize the Republican 

party in the state of New \'ork. In the same year 
he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of 
the state. The Governor of New York appointed 
him State Commissioner of Quarantine in 1858, 
and four years later President Lincoln made him 
Judge of the United States Provincial Court for 
Louisiana; and he was appointed Judge of the 
Criminal Court in New ( )rleans. hi the following 
year he became Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court of Louisiana. He was appointed I'nited 
States Attorney for the eastern district of Lou- 
isiana in 1865. Although eighty-four years of age 
Judge Peabody is still in the full vigor of his men- 
tal powers, continues his practice, and visits his 
office daily. He is a member of the Association 
for the Reform and Codification of the Law of 
Nations. He is a memlier of the Episcopal Church. 
He has twice married, his first wife being J.inelia 
Caroline Livingstone, and his second, Maria E. 
Hamilton, daughter of John C. Hamilton and grand- 
daughter of Alexander Hamilton. 




SALTMARSH, George Harrt.son, Physician, 
Laconia, was born in Gilford, New Hampshire, 
March 3, 1859. son of Thomas and Sallie (Gilman) 
Saltmarsh. He was educated in the public schools 
of his native place and at the New Hampton Listi- 
tution. hi 1879, '^^' began the study of medicine 
with Dr. William H. Rand of New Hampton and 
after attending three courses of lectures at Dart- 
mouth Medical College, was graduated November 
13, 1883. Since May, 1884, he has practiced his 
profession in Laconia. He is a member of the 
New Hampshire Medical Society, being a member 
of its Council, and of the Winnipiseogee Academy of 
Medicine, of which he has been Secretary since its 
incorporation in Jul)-, 1895. A paper on "Electri- 
citv in the Hands of the General Practitioner" from 



WORCESTER, JusKi'H Hii^liard, Lawyer, Roch- 
ester, was born in Milton, New Hampshire, De- 
cember 31, 1830, son of Isaac and Julia (Hillinrd) 
Worcester. He is of English stock, his ancestors 
having emigrated to Massachusetts. Mr. Worces- 
ter attended Rochester Academy, Pembroke Gym- 
nasium and Brown Lhiiversity. For a time he taught 
school, subsecpiently reading law with Cyrus K. 
Sanborn of Rochester, and being admitted to the 
Strafford County Bar in 1864. In the summer of 
that year he began a successful practice in Roches- 
ter, where he has since remained. Mr. Worcester 
is a Director of the Rochester National Bank; a 
member of the Bar Association of his part of the 
state; a Mason and an ( )dd I'ellow. In politics he 
is a Republican. 



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Abbott, A. W. . 
Abbott, Henry . 
Abbott, Oscar D. 
Adams, Daniel S. 
Albin, J. H. 
Allen, James V. 
Allison, G. A. . 
Amen, Harlan P. 
Aniidon, C. J. . 
Amsden, C. 11. . 
Annable, E. G. 
Anthoine, I. G. 
liachelder, John 
llailey, \V. \V. . 
P,al<er, E. . 
Baker, H. M. . 
Barron, O. G. 
Bartlett, P'remont H 
Bartlett, Geo. A. 
Bartlett, John P. 
Barton, H. A. 
Batchelder, A. T. 
Bean, Alfred E. 
Beattie, William J. 
Bellows, J. G. . 
lienedict, F. L. . 
Bingham, E. F. 
Bingham, Harry 
Blair, Henry W. 
Blood, Aretas 
Bond, George S. 
Bond, Herbert W. 
Boutwell, H. \V., po 
Bowker, C. H. 
Branch, O. E. . 
Brennan, James F. 
liriggs, James F. 
Brown, E. R. 
Brown, (). S. 
Buffum, C. T. . 
Burnham, H. B. 
Burnhani, Henry E 
Pnirns, Cliaries H. 
Cain, J. Leavitt 
Carbee, S. P. . 
Carter, G. T. . 
Carvelle, H. D. 
Chamberlin, Robert N. 
Chandler, \Vm. E. 
Chapman, Jacob 
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Chutter, F. G. 170 

Clark, Lewis W. ........ 125 

Cogswell, John R. ........ 46 

Colby, Fred. Myron ........ 48 

Cole, Edmund C. ....... . 200 

Collins, C. S 215 

Colony, Horatio . . . . . . • 171 

Conant, Henry E. . . 14 

Conn, Granville P. . . . . . . . -15 

Cox, Charles E. 11; 

Crane, J. S. . . 200 

Currier, F. D 86 

Currier, Moody . . . . . . . .216 

Cutler, Geo. 1 50 

Daley, Daniel J. ........ 48 

Davenport, J. L. . . . . . . .126 

Davis, George M. . . . . . . . -1-7 

Davis,' Samuel W 16 

Dearborn, Samuel G. . 17 

Dillon, M. A 127 

Donahue, John J. ........ 17 

Dort, Obed G 49 

Doyle, J. J 130 

Dresser, Lorin H. . iS 

Dudley, Harry H 51 

Eastman, Charles F. 19 

Eastman, Edwin G. . . 52 

Eastman, J. R. . 130 

Edgerly, F. G 172 

Elder, Charles B S9 

Eldredge, H. Fisher 54 

Ellis, Bertram ......... 20 

Emerson, C. F. 52 

Emerson, James E. ........ iS 

Emery, George H. . . 172 

Emery, M. G 131 

Emmons, G. B. ........ 133 

Evans, Alfred R 19 

Everett, George H 53 

Farrington, James ........ 20 

Faulkner, Francis C. ....... 85 

Fellows, J. W 201 

Ferren, Ebenezer . . . . . . . .134 

Foster, Joshua L 21 

Fowler, Edwin H 86 

Fowler, Herschel J. 23 

French, Leonard ........ 54 

Ferguson, John . . . . . . . .134 

(Jallinger, J. H. 135 

Garland, Benjamin C. ....... 88 

Gerrish, Enoch ........ 174 



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Gilmaii, Charles S. 

(iordon, Nathaniel 

Goss, Ilcihert I. 

Gove, J. M., sketch only 

Graves, R. K. 

Greeley, A. V. . 

Greenfield, Charles 

Greenleaf, C. II. 

Griffin, S. G. 

Grogan, Frank W. 

Ilaines, J. N. 

Hale, \Vm. S. . 

Hall, Daniel 

Hall, George E. 

Ilanibletl, C. J. 

Hanson, Dominicus 

Hardy, Silas 

i larrinian, A. 1 1. 

Harvey, A. K. I'., sketch only 

Haskell, I'. T. 

Haslet, G. W., sketch only 

Hastings, T. N. 

Hatch, R. H. . 

Hayes, Charles C. 

Hayes, J. A. 

Hazelton, Geo. C. 

Heffenger, A. C. 

Ilersey, Kred E. 

Hildreth, David M. 

Hill, A. W. 

Hill, Gardner C. 

Hills, Andrew J. 

Hobbs, J. O. . 

Ilodsdon, A. I.. 

Hopkins, C. H. 

Humphrey, John 

Hunt, William P. 

Jackson, George I'". 

Jewell, David L. 

Jewett, S. S. 

Jones, Edwin E. 

Jones, Krank 

Jone,s, John F. . 

Kennett, A. Crosby 

Kent, Hervey . 

Kimball, E. V. . 

King, K. H. 

Knight, W. V. . 

Knowlton, E. J., sketch only 

Langdon, Woodbury 

Leach, IC. G. 

Leet, G. E. 

Leonard, W. .S. 

Lcwando, Josei)h 

Libbey, Fred S. 

Libbey, H. C. . 

Lincoln, N. S. . 

Liscoui, Lemuel F. 

Little, George P. 

Lockhart, 15. W. 

Lord, Edwin 11. 

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Mackey, E. D. 

Martin, Nathaniel h 

Marvin, W. IC. 

McCollester, S. 11. 

McQucston, E. F. 

Mead, E. D. 

Melville, Henry 

Miner, Francis H. 

Mitchell, Abram \V 

Moody. W. H. II., sketch only 

Murkland, C .S. 

Nash, John IS. . 

Nason, William F. 

Newton, Leroy A. 

Niles, William W. 

Nims, Francis O. 

Norrls, True L. 

Ordway, N. G. 

Osgood, A. N. . 

Parsons, W. M. 

Page, .Samuel H. 

Parker, Henry K. 

Patterson, S. F. 

Peabody, Charles A , ske 

Pearson, E. N. 

Pearson, J. C. 

Pearson, J. H. 

Peaslee, lienjamin I 

Peirce, G. W. 

Pel ton, F. P. 

Perkins, A. A. . 

Perkins, George H. 

Perkins, H. P. . 

Pike, Robert G. 

Pillslmiy, Albert E. 

Pillsbury, Parker 

Piper, Charles F. 

Pitman, Charles F. 

Phimmer, Chas. H. 

Porter, R. H. . 

Powers, Wilbur H. 

Pulsifer, C. L. . 

Quiniby. J. G., sketch only 

Quinby, Henry B. 

Ramsdell, Geo. A. 

Ranlet, Joseph 

Reed, Wm. J. . 

Reynolds, Thomas O 

Rich, George F. 

Richardson, Cyrus 

Robinson, Henry 

Robinson, John L 

Rollins, Frank W. 

Rollins, Montgomery 

Rundlett, L. J. . 

Russell, Frank W. 

Saltniarsh, G. H., sketch only 

Sanborn, Geo. F. 

Sanborn, John W. 

Sanger, T. E. 

Sargent, F. II. 

.Sargent, H. G. . 

Sawyer, Charles H 



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Shannon, E. H. 
Shapley, J. Hamilton 
•Shute, Henry A. 
Sides, W. O. . 
Sniitli, Cliarles S. 
Smith, Isaac W. 
Smith, Robert K. 
Smith, W. B. T. 
Spalding, John A. 
Spaulding, O. L. 
Sprague, Obadiah 
Stahl, A. M. 
Stanton. IjUciiis M 
Stark, Giilis 
Stearns, Ezra S. 
Stearns, Onslow 
Stone, C. F. 
Stone, Melvin T. 
Streeter, Frank S. 
Sturtevant, E. H. 
Sulloway, C. A. 
Swart, W. IJ. . 
Sweet, Robert V. 
Tenney, Chas. H. 
Tetley, Edmund 
Thayer, W. F. 
Tliompson, Artliur 
Thompson, James 
Towle, E. I. 



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Truesdell, Edmnnd E 
Tucker, W. J. . 
Tuttle, James P. 
Twitchell, Albert S 
Upton, J. K. . . 
Upton, Peter 
Varney, D. B. 
Vaniey, F. M. . 
Walker, Reuben E. 
Wallace, Albert 
Wallace, A. S. . 
Wallace, R. M. 
Wallace, Sumner 
Wason, E. H. . 
Webster, Claudius B 
Weeks, Frank 
Weeks, John W. 
Wentworth, Geo. A 
Westgale, Tyler 
Whittemore, Arthur G. 
Wilder, Christopher W 
Wilkinson, S. S. 
Williamson, W. D. . 
Winslow, S. J. . 
Woodbury, Levi. 
Woodworth, Albert B. 
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